I get that it’s open source provided you use codium not code but I still find that interesting
They are mistaken. Visual Studio for Mac is being retired next year, not vscode. Not the same program…
eli5, but isn’t visual studio code a part of visual studio? or why is it not? or is this like a java/javascript thing where they are named similar because of popularity but have no codebase in common?
Those two are completely different products.
Visual Studio is a full IDE which include full microsoft SDK (C++, .net, etc), while VSCode is a text editor forked from Github’s Atom text editor (which was the precursor of the Electron framework), with a javacript editor core called Monaco.
Might want to read the article:
While the decision has been made to retire Visual Studio for Mac, we remain committed to our developers on Mac with alternatives like the recently announced C# Dev Kit for VS Code and other extensions that will allow you to take advantage of our ongoing investments in .NET development on a Mac.
