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> Hey there! Another PM on Visual Studio Live Share here. Security is absolutely something we are designing for. Microsoft will not be collecting data on the code. The code is not stored or uploaded in the cloud in any way. Rather, it is just a connection that is established between you and the teammate you are sharing with.
> There's more details in the FAQ here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/live-share-faq
> Are there any actual advantages of using more advanced software
Syntax checking, context-sensitive auto-complete, call-tips, linting or static code analysis, Git integration, integrated debugger, integrated task runner...
Comparing apples to apples, Microsoft also got it right with their IDE. They have made great strides with their Visual Studio products in recent years. They have created Visual Studio Code, which is free available across platforms. They have Visual Studio Community Edition, which is the full version of Visual Studio (sans some professional-level features like a testing suite, I believe), and that's free for up to 5 users under an organization that makes less than a million dollars a year.
Want to buy a license for Visual Studio as a business? Great, you can get that for some real money, because you are a business with an income and you are using Microsoft as a main tool to make that income. I'd be more than happy to shell out $1,199 a year for Visual Studio and a bunch of auxiliary tools if my team is making more than a million bucks.
It wasn't in the key highlights, but compare dirty file with version on disk is a long awaited feature for me. No idea how they consistently add so many features every month.
Coming from Atom, I was looking for an extension for highlighting changed and new git files in the explorer to no avail, and then today they included it in the update. Very cool.
YES! Finally we have multi-root workspaces!
This means you can open multiple projects in the same editor now. For now this feature is only available in the Insiders build.
> Has Intellisense
Not for most languages. I'm not only talking about function parameter help, it won't even complete variable names defined one line above where you are typing.
Edit: Intellisense is only for JavaScript, JSON, HTML, CSS, LESS, SASS. So unless you are only doing front-end work, it's useless. https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages
Edit2: C# has Intellisense too.
Edit3: It works, at least for C++, but you have to hit ctrl+space each time you want suggestions. It doesn't show automatically like it does in Visual Studio, and it doesn't show function parameters.
Visual Studio Code is pretty straight-forward: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux
Also, it's cross platform, so what minimal learning/configurations/plugins you need will work on mac and windows, too.
I'm testing it (the download link is live: https://code.visualstudio.com)
So far:
- Syntax-highlighting works.
- Auto-completes with the words in the current file if intellisense isn't available.
- It's waaaaaay faster than Atom.
- Integrates with git.
- Doesn't support bitmap fonts. :(
- It uses a lot of memory, I can see multiple code.exe processes running, kinda like Chromium.
- There isn't a way to set the default line ending (CRLF is set by default on Windows).
I’m sorry, but is our job as developers to do the needful and spread the gospel of eradicating light themes, not spending time being productive and just writing code, but going overboard with editor configuration until you’ve completely forgotten about why you even installed a text editor.
It’s worrisome that this thread is over an hour old and nobody has come to spread the good word of the one true editor, our lord and savior VSCode, the free and open source messiah that doesn’t try blinding you when you first greet it like other false prophets, but instead greets you with solid contrast and power saving dark colors. How can anyone deny that VSCode isn’t the true path to righteousness when out of the box it is able to autocomplete better than any other without consuming one’s entire available RAM and CPU time like other heathen IDEs (like the antichrist eclipse with it’s light theme blinding you so it can wreak havok upon your machine). And once equipped with the VIM extension, there’s no doubt that it is the true successor to the original divine editor as it possesses all the power of the original while still allowing you to exit it without having to sacrifice your first born child (but that option is still available as it understands the old magic of :wq and :x and :wofjspleaseexit.
^(But seriously, give them the link to VSCode, ignoring the dark theme circlejerk, out of the box it’s seriously one of the best — if not the best — HTML editors available)
It's a pretty good example of the fact that a lot of software development doesn't happen in a vacuum where only performance and efficiency matter.
VSCode's greatest strength is it's own ease of development. There's tons of developers who can contribute to the project rapidly and create extensions. Their update log speaks for itself.
Of course Electron has a lot of overhead, but at the end of the day providing value for your end-users is key and a tool like Electron may easily be cost-efficient in that regard. The project switching to C++ for incredibly efficient code would be a disservice to it's users.
For those of you having auto-complete issues with Visual Studio Code, I wanted to make you aware that we are working on a new auto-complete engine, the Python Language Server, and you can try it out by changing your settings.
It gets better every week, we are currently working through a set of performance improvements before we make this the default. If you run into issues, check out our troubleshooting guide for common setup problems and how to file issues.
I dunno if zoom is necessary, since by live streaming they can see what you see already.
But Id recommend making use of the Live Share functionality on Visual Studio Code!
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/11/15/live-share
Lets multiple people work together in real time on the same code, quite powerful.
Visual Studio Code is completely free.
Visual Studio has a Community Edition that is also free for students and small teams.
Don't forget about Atom, Github's electron-based editor that happens to compete directly against Visual Studio Code, Microsoft's electron-based editor. I can't imagine Microsoft is going to want to oversee the development of two competing editors, and that's not good for those of us who use Atom every day. :-(
Man, I got all excited! I've never heard of "Visual Studio Code", and thought they were releasing the source code for "Visual Studio".
VSCode also has autosave, you just need to turn it on. It's like you guys just give up on trying to solve a problem if the solution is not a simple checkbox on the first tab of the Settings dialog.
Oh man. You weren't around for the VS Code Icon Civil War of 2017?
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/35783
End result: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/24/theicon
Funny read :)
Import path quick suggestions in JavaScript and TypeScript
Used plugins for this before, but hell ya. This will probably work better than the plugins could.
I recommend you try Visual Studio Code with remote ssh. It's pretty much the advantages of local development, but on a remote machine.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
(I realize this isn't the answer you're looking for, but I went through a similar thought process a few months ago. Going for a workstation/laptop combo meant a lighter laptop, that I could turn off anytime and wouldn't be constantly venting hot air)
"<strong>Unused variable detection</strong>" is actually a pretty neat function. Up to this day this could be done only with some TypeScript extension and now integrated.
It'd also be cool to implement "Unreachable code detection" for a code that will never, under any circumstances, be reached. Something like this:
if(something) return true; else return false; i++; // this will never be reached so it's a garbage eating up precious kilobytes on my network
It comes down to how they were implemented. Sublime Text is written in C++ with a python plugin interface. It was designed to be a text editor unlike the other two.
Atom is written in CoffeeScript (fancy JavaScript), less (fancy css) and HTML (not that fancy) on the Electron framework. As joked about in the article, it's a web browser repurposed to edit text.
I don't know much about VS Code but it's also written in another fancy JavaScript and CSS so I can only assume it's implementation is similar to Atom. Edit: Confirmed Electron
Sublime was built to be a text editor and built to be sold to developers in big companies. Atom was built to show off electron and promote GitHub. VS Code was built to promote the "Microsoft ❤️Linux" advertising campaign, seems like they want to grab more developers as many are moving to Mac and Linux. VS Code also sends usage data to Microsoft.
Edit: added references.
You aren't going to like hearing this, but most IDE's that do C also do C++ because of their interoperability. One of the better ones I've found is actually Qt Creator, which you can install sans the whole Qt SDK. Visual Studio Code is actually pretty good and does all those things as well.
Good Luck.
> Are there any IDEs you would reccommend that is in a more stable place?
Visual Studio Code + lukehoban.Go extension (Marketplace)
If you look at the video on https://code.visualstudio.com/ you'll see a Microsoft guy presenting Microsoft software sitting in front of a MacBook running OS X. For some reason this creeps me the fuck out. My mind is not used to being bent like this.
:)
There's a ton of support. I would first learn a basic editor like Vim, to edit text/source code, and then learn how to invoke a compiler (e.g. gcc) via command line. Learning to compile via command line more important than learning the CLI IDE environment at your point. I won't add too much more than that, because the compiler in itself is a lot to learn.
Last thing I will say is that you can set up VSCode to edit code over ssh if you want a fallback: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh
just fyi, plain old ES + JSDoc comments (where required) gets you typing support in VS Code. You can also `npm i` typings for external libraries and still get the intellisense in vs code. I'm also pretty addicted to TS but one of the es6 projects I work on actually isn't so bad once we realized how much typing support we could get with just vs code and javascript. more info: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/javascript
.NET Core 1.0 hit RTM June 2016, so I don't know what you're talking about. As for VSCode it's more than suitable, and it has comparable IntelliSense to Visual Studio. So please stop taking out of your arse.
I imagine they all ship the open version considering you may not:
> share, publish, rent or lease the software, or provide the software as a stand-alone offering for others to use.
Needless to say, whoever is distributing that flatpak is in breach of the license agreement unless they have had prior permission from Microsoft.
For those interested here are the supported languages:
Syntax coloring, bracket matching:
- C++
- jade
- HP
- Python
- XML
- Batch
- F#
- DockerFile
- Coffee Script
- Java
- HandleBars
- R
- Objective-C
- PowerShell
- Luna
- Visual Basic
- Markdown
Syntax coloring, bracket matching Plus IntelliSense, linting, outline
- JavaScript
- JSON
- HTML
- CSS
- LESS
- SASS
Syntax coloring, bracket matching Plus IntelliSense, linting, outline plus Refactoring, find all references
- C#
- TypeScript
That is from a feature in Visual Studio called CodeLens. It integrates with your integrated source control solution to provide the information.
I haven't thought to look for the feature in VS Code, but it looks like this extension might provide similar functionality: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/02/12/code-lens-roundup
Figured I'd mention that Microsoft also has Visual Studio Online, which can be configured with an Azure server to offer similar capabilities with better extension support as far as I know. It's also a lot more straightforward to set up.
I have had issues with hosting on my personal desktop and access from a laptop - the desktop host needs to be re-initialized every time I connect (super annoying, if anyone has a similar experience, would love a solution).
Glad to see that the remote development extensions are now supported.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview
I guess I should note that the extensions themselves are still in preview.
The "Remote - SSH" one sounds the most interesting to me. Perhaps the era of CLI's like 'react-create-app' will now be followed by a new era where they provide ready made remote dev containers that you spin up in your own cloud account (or use sites like StackBlitz, coder.com).
> [VS Code] It aims to provide just the tools a developer needs for a quick code-build-debug cycle and leaves more complex workflows to fuller featured IDEs, such as Visual Studio IDE.
From their own FAQ it’s described as a light weight IDE.
I haven't implemented anything myself but have a look at https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/ and https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/
Also https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/syntax-highlight-guide for syntax highlighting. TextMate grammars can also be used in Atom (although I think Atom is migrating to something called "treesitter" now).
Great list! If I might add a few more tool recommendations:
As a developer on the team of a mobile app, can confirm that "Bug fixes and performance improvements" pretty much a very common changelog entry for us. Got to say, though, I very much love the new trend of comprehensively communicating changes along with the internal story that drove them. Examples:
VS Code isn't the same as Visual Studio. It's a completely new product from a different team, and it's free and open source. It's the most popular IDE now according to stack overflow. RIP Atom and Sublime text, I guess.
If collecting personal data is a concern for you, you should look at https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting and in particular:
> Note: VS Code gives you the option to install Microsoft and third party extensions. These extensions may be collecting their own usage data and are not controlled by the telemetry.enableTelemetry setting. Consult the specific extension’s documentation to learn about its telemetry reporting.
He actually said Visual Studio <em>Code</em>, which is different from Visual Studio and works on Linux. But I think it's also not compatible with Visual Studio, so as far as I know you can't get such nice integration with Unity. Maybe it's still better than MonoDevelop though?
The same reason many use chromium over chrome.
The binary has other things in it AND isn't open source. While the VSCode source code is available under MIT the binary Microsoft publishes has a different non-free licence.
For example you may not
>share, publish, rent or lease the software, or provide the software as a stand-alone offering for others to use.
>reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code for the software
Visual Studio Code is what is being suggested most. The default PS ISE is pretty limited out of the box, and Microsoft announced that it won't be developed anymore, and all new work is happening in vscode.
I personally stick with the PowerShell ISE for the bulk of my work with an extension called ISESteroids. It adds things like automatic code signing, refactoring scripts, built-in version control (saving versions of the scripts inside of zip files, which you can compare/revert within the ISE.)
If you happen to have Visual Studio, there is a PowerShell extension for that, or there is a new PowerShell add-in for Visual Studio Code which I have been enjoying playing with (though I haven't used it for anything serious yet.)
My team leader used to exclusively use the PrimalScript tools, but has started working in the ISE instead so take from that what you will.
Another 'tool' which may help is to get on-board with Git. Version control can be a huge help in figuring out what you changed in a script that broke it (and go back to when it was working.)
This is a proprietary editor. Also from https://code.visualstudio.com/License
For this pre-release version, users cannot opt out of data collection.
I don't know why people are so hyped on this, seems really stupid compared to existing editors.
They've got a (visually) large section on the homepage declaring
> #ASP.NET v5 | NODE.jS >Develop ASP.NET and Node applications at lightning speed
So...one would assume that it is indeed intended for .NET development. Surely they aren't taking a step backwards from C# to ASP(language) are they?
EDIT:
The documentation page also states that it supports C# refactoring and 'find all reference' functionality.
Everyone is going nuts on /r/linux and /r/programming about this, but having looked into it a bit, let me try to break this down:
This is not visual studio. It's a new code editor written in Typescript (MS's JavaScript wrapper) based on github's Atom editor that has the Visual Studio brand and (to some degree) UX.
From what I can tell, it only properly supports a handful of high-level, non-compiled languages aimed at web dev: Javascript, nodejs, ASP.NET, C#, Typescript. Debugging support seems to be limited to ASP.NET and Typescript.
It has basic support (read: syntax highlighting) for most of your popular languages. See this.
Personally I don't see anything here that interests me as a programmer, it doesn't support languages I use (at least, not more than syntax highlighting, which any editor can give me), but maybe someone who codes ASP.NET on Linux will be excited about this?
I think the really big story here is that Microsoft is actually packaging this for Linux and treating desktop Linux like a first-class citizen in this case.
The $64k question is whether this represents the future of VS -- if it will evolve into the flagship IDE and retain feature-parity across platforms -- or if it's just a sideshow to rope developers into the VS experience so they feel compelled to go for the "full experience" (VS on Windows).
While not a true solution like having the program included by default, as of the July 2018 update VSCode can now be installed without administrator rights to the users' Appdata folder. They called it User Setup.
https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_26#_user-setup-for-windows
The downside to starting with an IDE is that you may end up spending more time trying to figure out how the IDE works than actually spending time programming.
I always recommend starting with a text editor and the command line, and then moving on to an IDE if a future project demands it.
If you want to get the best of both worlds, there's VS Code, which is a text editor that's highly customizable and comes packed with several IDE-type features.
Basically a user install doesn't require admin rights. This means if you want to use VSCode on your work computer you don't need to get IT to install it.
It should still show up in the start menu. Assuming you selected the option in the installer it should have a shortcut somewhere in > %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs`
Finally Microsoft does provide a system install version that sounds like what you are looking for. It's located on the download page: https://code.visualstudio.com/Download
Ah. You'll need to monkey with path and settings variables if you want to use something like the python extension.
Microsoft has really good documentation for VS Code. I'd recommend using it heavily. Here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/python-tutorial
This is a cool thing you've done! Writing a programming language is great fun, and yours looks really interesting.
That said, as another commenter said, this is really not HTML in any way at all. Can you put .html as the extension and display it in a webbrowser as a webpage? If not, it's not HTML. Maybe change your readme to say that "the syntax is HTML-inspired / XML-based" or something more accurate like that.
Also, really cool that you've made a language server! Does it implement the Language Server Protocol and integrate with the VSCode plugin? If not, you should consider it.
> In the future updates will install automatically for Mac and Windows, but we're not using automatic updates for this release.
Taken from here. Probably a bug or something in the auto updating system that needed to be fixed manually before moving forward? Not sure.
> Architecturally, Visual Studio Code combines the best of web, native, and language-specific technologies. Using the GitHub Electron Shell, Code combines web technologies such as JavaScript and Node.js with the speed and flexibility of native apps. Code uses a newer, faster version of the same industrial-strength HTML-based editor that has powered the “Monaco” cloud editor, Internet Explorer's F12 Tools, and other projects.
Hey guys if you could support: "Pluggable intellisense for user languages" that would be awesome :) https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/293070-visual-studio-code/suggestions/7752666-pluggable-intellisense-for-user-languages
Also on their FAQ. page near the bottom:
> Common Questions
> Q: Can I contribute my own language service?
> A: Not yet but soon. Help us prioritize this in our user voice site.
This is a preview. You should read https://code.visualstudio.com/docs
If you're new to programming or Linux, or not able/willing to put in extra time to figure things out, you're safer keeping Windows and doing your assignments by the numbers.
That said, if it's an "Introduction to C Programming" class all you should really need to figure out is 'gcc foo.c -o foo', read error messages and let them guide you to where you missed a semicolon ;)
If there's anything Microsoft-specific in a "C programming" class, call the teacher out on it. It's a C programming class, not a Microsoft indoctrination class. Or don't. Paint by numbers.
Buried half way down in the release notes is inline diff is now editable. Hooray, finally!! Super excited about such a minor change.
This for example: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/10/03/terminal-renderer
They aren't replacing/rewriting anything in chromium itself, they are reimplementing chromium functionality in their typescript application. So for example as the linked post explains they moved from giving the entire terminal contents to chromium as a DOM to only giving the visible part (but that made it impossible to select invisible parts of the output) to reimplementing the whole thing by manually rendering to a canvas element.
For all the comments accusing forgiving parsers:
https://code.visualstudio.com/api/language-extensions/language-server-extension-guide#error-tolerant-parser-for-language-server
Error tolerant parsers are now a industrial standard which are used by IDEs. And LSP highly recommends language implementors to provide such parsers for code completion, etc.
One significant ongoing work has been the underlying improvement to > enable seamless development in Containers, remotely on physical or virtual machines, and with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
See: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/05/02/remote-development
> visual studio
VS Code is a separate product. It's cross-platform and open source.
https://code.visualstudio.com/
It's based on Electron which is similar to CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) which Brackets is using. Atom also uses Electron, for example.
VS Code's out-of-the-box support for JS (and other web related languages like HTML, CSS/SCSS, etc) is amazing:
> I honestly feel that electron is the source of almost all of atom's shortcommings
Completely false statement. Microsoft use it for VS code and its far more performant than Atom. This is not by chance this is because Microsoft have invested a lot of time into performance where the Atom team focuses on addins and themes. Pains me to say but Microsoft did it right and produced a brilliant product first, instead of chasing niche markets and making things look pretty and it really shows when comparing the 2 products.
If you're a developer and interested in some of the things they have done they take a look at:
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2017/02/08/syntax-highlighting-optimizations
There's also an article somewhere on how they tuned the way electron renders outside of the viewport and how they edited this, that's where most of the performance gain over Atom comes from. I will try and dig out the blog post.
Try:
Eclipse and Netbeans are first and foremost Java IDEs, not Java*Script* - these languages are, despite their similar name, completely unrelated.
On mobile... so can't find and post reference website... But I think this is in Microsoft's tos - "Telemetry gets auto enabled on every update. There is no way to permanently disable it.". At least, that's the case with Visual studio code... They automatically re enable telemetry on any update.
Edit: Found the link to VS Code page... https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/supporting/FAQ
"Important Notice: You will need to apply these changes after every update to disable collection of usage data. These changes do not survive product updates."
Just quick info that I just installed Swift and clang flawlessly using the supplied instructions on the popular Linux Mint 17 distro. I thought it should work well enough with the Swift Ubuntu 14.04 binaries given that this distro is based on that LTS release, and sure enough... :)
Now I'm hunting for a syntax highlighting text editor. It still feels kind of alien that this is even possible, and resources like these are still scarce for obvious reasons. :D It'll quickly get much better, of course. I think I'll go with Visual Studio Code. It gives me better performance than Atom.io, and I kind of like it especially now that it got its Marketplace. It also, surprisingly, comes with built-in Swift support, although (so far?) rudimentary.
My God... Visual Studio Code... Swift... Both on Linux. What is the world coming to!
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/customization
> Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts
> All keyboard shortcuts in VSCode can be customized via the User/keybindings.json file.
> To configure keyboard shortcuts the way you want, go to the menu under AppMenu | File , Preferences , Keyboard Shortcuts.
> This will open to the left the Default Keyboard Shortcuts and to the right your User/keybindings.json file where you can overwrite the default bindings.
Syntax for keyboard shortcuts json is on the help page.
First thing to try is disabling extensions. November stable release added extension bisect command to quickly isolate problems to a specific extension.
Set up an SSH server in the VM, forward port 22 of the VM to your host in the Virtualbox network settings. Create an SSH configuration file and keys on Windows, so you can login over SSH without entering your password every time.
Then install Visual Studio Code on Windows, and also install the Remote SSH extension. Connect to CentOS. This will install VSCode server on there. Once this is done, also install the C/C++ extension on the "remote".
You now have the VSCode server running in Linux on the VM with your files, build process, debugger, terminal etc. The VSCode client is just the GUI running on Windows.
It sounds like he's concerned about Telemetry? which does ping back to VS Code servers about the work you're doing.
If that's the case, turning off Telemetry should be enough.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting
If you're using IntelliJ, I'd say use Windows. If you're using VSCode, I'd say install it in WSL then use the WSL Remote plugin.
IntelliJ's Rust plugin is probably better than VSCode's for pure Rust development, but with VSCode + WSL you get the more generally polished Linux development experience.
I don't think there really are much better options (we all use PyCharm or a regular text editor at my company) but the following exist:
- Wing — They're Python specific, but I never even saw a reason to try it out
- Visual Studio — Microsoft's huuuuge IDE, designed mainly for other, more enterprise-y languages, but seems to be catching up on Python as well recently. Not too impressed though.
- Visual Studio Code — A lightweight text editor that has powerful tools (including an integrated debugger) regardless, and is under very swift development. I'm actually seeing myself use it fairly often even on large projects.
- With the proper configuration/plugins, you can be pretty productive with any other reasonable text editor: Atom and Sublime Text, or if you're more adventurous, vim and emacs.
> "If Error": { "prefix": "e", "body": [ "if err != nil {", " $0", "}" ] },
It took me two seconds to realize this is the proprietary syntax to create a “Code Snippet” in Visual Studio Code [1].
Since no every Go programmer uses Visual Studio Code, you could have said something like this:
> “Maybe a code snippet will help the try() people out […]”
[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets
Atom is still fine. It's being developed just as it was before.
VS Code is also a fine editor. It isn't hard to disable telemetry.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/FAQ#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting
I have to admit, VSCode is fast becoming my favourite text editor in place of sublime. It's free, and Microsoft are putting a lot of work into updating it with new features and bug fixes all the time. There's not much left that sublime does which VSCode can't.
Visual Studio Code is not released under the MIT license (source). Only if you built it yourself from Git or a tarball is it licensed via MIT. The source code is free as in speech the binaries (as supplied by Microsoft) are not.
> Textmanipulation, Webseitenerstellung, Automatisierung täglicher Aufgaben (Skripte eben)
Editor: https://code.visualstudio.com
Sprachen: Python, HTML und CSS
Und die Grundlagen der Unix-Befehlszeile.
VSCode plus the vscode-cpptools plugin along things like cmake-tools or whatever build system you prefer.
What? Have you even used it?
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/overview
> What Languages are Supported
>Batch - C++ - C# - Clojure - Coffee Script - CSS - Dockerfile - F# - Go - Groovy - HandleBars - HTML - Ini - Jade - Java - JavaScript - JSON - Less - Lua - Makefile - Markdown - Objective-C - Pascal - Perl - PHP - PowerShell - Python - R - Razor - Ruby - Rust - Sass - Scala - SQL - Swift - TypeScript - Visual Basic - XML
While Vim and Emacs are great, they have their own learning curve, and if you are a beginner programmer, it could be annoying to be learning both the language and editor at the same time.
You can try by moving to a code editor first. I am hearing good things about Visual Studio Code these days, Sublime Text is also quite famous.
Once your skills as programmer have improved a bit, you can give Vim/Emacs a try and see what suits your needs better.
Hi all, here it is a ReactJS + emacs-lsp tutorial after the CPP one. It is a direct port of VSCode reactjs tutorial. It was really fun to provide that tutorial since all we had to do is string replace VScode -> Emacs, replace the screenshots, change the way commands are invoked spend a few weeks chasing bugs. The tutorial ships with ~25 lines "get the job done" config as a demonstration that we are closer(hopefully) to the "just works" category.
https://www.w3schools.com/ for HTML, CSS, Javascript (Jquery), SQL (and PHP) (everything you need to write for Web Browsers. AND ITS FREE.
Even Toturials for Pyhton and Java for Programm Applications. Go get "Visual Studio Code" create your first HTML file (default: index.html) and start coding. HTML is easy to learn - You will enjoy it!
Per quanto riguarda lo scrivere in Python io preferisco farlo da Visual Studio Code (ha ottimi plugin per supportarlo) oppure con Sublime Text che è un ottimo editor.
> Visual Studio Code
Just installed it, and this pops up..
Mmm...
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/supporting/faq#_how-to-disable-telemetry-reporting
These people. They just can't let go. Looks nice otherwise.
I suggest Visual Studio Code. Install the extension Haskero which almost gives you an IDE feeling.
As an added bonus with VSCode, you will have in-built terminal (of your choice): and depending on your OS - a shell of your choice - bash, powershell, etc. You can fire up a ghci REPL here. And get everything on Haskell in one VSCode window.
Atleast, this is my setup and I enjoy it this way.
While /u/zakphi offered you a correct solution, I recommend that you actually install an IDE. You will find yourself benefiting greatly from typing up your code in an environment that is designed to help you along. Most IDEs will also allow you to debug your code right there, but you can always copy/paste it into the browser's console if you so desire.
For example, you could try VS Code. It's not the only option by a long shot, but it's the most popular IDE for JS web development at the moment, and for a good reason. It's free, runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS, and comes with a lot of built-in functionality as well as a ton of user-made plugins, many of which are lifesavers.
Visual Studio and CLion (which backs off GDB if I remember right) have pretty decent debuggers.
If you can get VS Code to properly detect your environment, it seems to be able to integrate with a few different debugging services. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/cpp#_debugging
Unfortunately most of the best visual debuggers are part of the IDE itself, rather than a standalone element.
Given what you're looking for and where you're coming from, you might be comfortable with Coda or Brackets.
Personally, I use vim. SublimeText 3 is a solid option. Then there's Visual Studio Code.
A couple things: first, be careful about overriding the f2 function. It's actually the shortcut for the rename refactoring.
Second, the smart templates feature from the jet brains IDEs can be replicated by making snippets: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/userdefinedsnippets
There are a bunch of plugins too, which could make life easier.
There are ftp plugins on the marketplace for VS Code. Others are built in by default:
VS minimap - February 2017 (version 1.10)
There is Split screen too
If you fine Windows 7 more productive then Windows 8, then you might just not know about the new features that makes Windows 8 better (one of my favorites is WIN+X).
Windows 10 adds more snap areas (quadrant snapping), better snap with multiple monitors, and virtual desktop. Those are probably the three largest productivity features added to Windows 10 I have found so far. They make it a lot easier to multi task or keep "work" separate from everything else or whatever you want to use it all for (so the answer is yes).
Also, if you have not seen it yet, checkout Visual Studio Code. It is basically a lightwight version of Visual Studio without any of the compilers, TFS and a lot of the other features I never use. It still has to ability to attach to a process and debug the code so it works great for Web technologies. It also feels a lot like Sublime Text or Github's Atom if you use/like it. It works on Windows 7+, Mac, and Linux.
Tide works for javascript as well as long as there is a jsconfig.json file. Installing @types/{package_name} will result in better autocompletion etc.
It sure is free! I haven't opened ISE in a year even going so far as to install it on most of our Dev/Staging servers.
- Visual Studio Code
- PowerShell Extension for Visual Studio Code
If you have the choice, I'd say MonoGame is best. You'll get real C#.
To get started, you can follow those steps:
- 1) You will need to install dotnet core on here: https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/windows. You may have to restart your pc for dotnet to appear in command prompt.
- 2) Install vscode here: https://code.visualstudio.com/
- 3) press Microsoft key and R and type cmd or run command prompt however you choose.
- 4) type:
dotnet new --install MonoGame.Template.CSharp(this will add monogame template to dotnet core) - 5) Select a folder where you would like to store your project before doing anything below!
- 6) type:
dotnet new mgdesktopgl -o MyGame(MyGame can be called your project) - 7) type:
cd mygame - 8) type:
code . - 9) press F5 and done.
Don't skip step 4. (Everyone skips step 4, I don't know why.)
To publish your game, you can use:
dotnet publish -r linux-x64 -c release dotnet publish -r osx-x64 -c release dotnet publish -r win-x64 -c release
The game files will be in the publish folders:
MyGame\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.0\win10-x64\publish MyGame\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.0\osx-x64\publish MyGame\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.0\linux-x64\publish
If you have any questions, you can join the MonoGame Discord: https://discord.gg/FpzVawT
You can use a text editor of your choice. Personally I like Visual Studio Code. To show you the stuff that you coded, you'll need to deploy a server. This can easily be done in VS Code with an extension called "live server". In VS Code, you'll see a square box looking icon where extensions you've downloaded are found. In the search bar from there, you can search for "live server" and click to install it. Reload VS Code to allow it to be used.
Alternatively you can use a JavaScript package manager called "npm" (short for Node Package Manager) to launch a server. You do this by using the command line argument "npm build <NAME_OF_FILE_YOU_ARE_DEPLOYING>" without the less than/greater than signs ("angle brackets" as they are often called in web development). You'll need to download Node for this to work. You'll have to constantly shut down the server and restart it though unless you use a helper program called a "daemon" (daemons are just small, background programs that act as helpers for some piece of software). The one for Node I am referencing is one called "nodemon" (in your best rastafari accent say 'node mahn!'. It's not "no demon".). You'll have to download nodemon by running npm install nodemon.
If you want to see quick and easy changes without all this setup, you can start by using codepen. But after you get comfortable with writing html/css/js, you should move on to using a text editor. You won't be using codepen in a job most of the time but it's good for when you're first starting out.
Also as for 25 being too late, no, there are plenty of people who started much later than you have and they're successful web developers.
Atom is developed by a larger community so it gets faster updates and more plugins, like a built-in terminal. It's more customizable and looks better.
Also consider VS Code, it's a more stable competitor to Atom with git integration. That's what I'm using now since I got fed up with Atom's arcane update process that changes the executable's directory every update, messing up my paths.
Here is some assembly. You're essentially pushing around memory spaces and using very basic instructions, rather than what modern programming languages do which is use simple shorthands for complex operations on the CPU.
For anyone with zero programming knowledge, compare it to this Python code. Notice that the Python has proper words, and in a format which lets you pretty easily guess what it does even if you've never done any programming ever.
The IDE story is definitely better than it was, but still not where it needs to be. Languages like Java and C# have IDEs that make so many common tasks completely trivial or automates them entirely. Haskell would have much more information available than those languages so I would expect a much more powerful IDE to be possible.
@Neil Would you have an availability or interest in helping the haskell-ide project with what you learned with ghcid? At this point I think the easiest way to get to a proper IDE would be to make a well behaved server that can communicates with Visual Studio Code.
If you are using a 'tsconfig.json' the option you want is 'outDir', you can read more about it here. Also you might wanna give Microsoft's VSCode a shot. It supports any OS, and it is really good for typescript and Node debugging. I used Sublime for as long as I can remember, and I've now switched completely to VSCode.