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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Sale on Visual Studio from Bleeping Computer
Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 03:26:48 -0000 (UTC)
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On 25 May 2024 03:11:51 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> On Fri, 24 May 2024 23:08:09 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> If Visual Studio is so wonderful, why is there Visual Studio Code?
> 
> It's really an entirely different animal. One nice feature of Visual
> Studio is the available templates for various projects although they
> aren't necessary. There is better support for WinForms and WPf,
> installer creation, and so forth. You can get by with dotnet and MSBuild
> but it's a lot more work.
>
> ...
> 
> VSCode has a lot of extensions that I don't think are available in
> Visual Studio workloads. For example I have Pylance installed for
> general Python work, MicroPico for working with the Pico W, PlatformIO
> for  Arduinos and other boards, Jupyter notebook support, C/C#/C++
> extensions, and a few others.
> 
> That's on both my Windows and Linux machines. Visual Studio is Windows
> only.

So Microsoft’s development efforts are fragmented across two entirely 
different, incompatible IDE architectures.

But then, fragmentation is nothing new to Microsoft, is it?