Re: Sale on Visual Studio from Bleeping Computer

On Mon, 27 May 2024 22:40:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 03:25 this Saturday (GMT):

On 25 May 2024 03:19:09 GMT, rbowman wrote:
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If the various websites can be believed VSCode has become the IDE of
choice for any language you care to mention.

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There is the question of why it had to be built on Electron, instead of
using Microsoft’s own Dotnet framework--wasn’t that cross-platform
enough?
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But then, maybe Dotnet is just as bloated as Electron ...

 
 
I don't /think/ dotnet works on Linux.. I could be wrong though.

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You are.  If you haven't been following my recent posts dotnet 5.0 and
above is not .NET Framework.  Depending on the distro the dotnet runtime
and sdk can be installed with the classic 'app install' or 'dnf install.
For Ubuntu you can use snap.  I don't know if there is a flatpak.
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GUIs aren't supported very well, if at all. While you can do console apps
the principle use is ASP.NET.
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I won't reiterate how royally they muddied the waters by sticking a Core
postfix on things that weren't .NET Framework, and then dropped Core.
Modern .NET is not .NET Framwork.