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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Sale on Visual Studio from Bleeping Computer
Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 23:22:16 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 24 May 2024 19:13:47 -0400, Joel wrote:

> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>>>I don’t know why we care about a piece of software which is useless
>>>>for non-Windows development, and barely copes with Windows-only
>>>>development as it is.
>>> 
>>> I didn't buy it, but it is an outstanding value, to get the paid
>>> version for $40.
>>
>>If Visual Studio is so wonderful, why is there Visual Studio Code?
> 
> I guess they wanted to release that particular editor separately, for
> whatever reason.

Because the future belongs to cross-platform development, and Visual 
Studio is useless for that.