Re: Sale on Visual Studio from Bleeping Computer

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.