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by JL2010 3738 days ago
For me, the full-measure solution would be to provide a native port of Visual Studio for Linux. I understand that this is not practical on many, many levels, but if Microsoft were to ever take on that herculean effort they would win me over in terms of my choice for dev tools under Linux.

For now I'll have my Windows stuff in Windows and my Linux stuff in my Linux partition. I do look forward to checking out the linux-in-windows (dynamic syscall translation) feature soon though.
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TwoBit 3738 days ago
That would involve a full ground-up Visual Studio rewrite. It's not going to happen.
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SiVal 3738 days ago
No, but Visual Studio Code is off to a very good start, and it runs well on Windows, Mac, and Linux, all free and open source. It's not a "rewrite" per se, but a new product with the same name but targeted at developers on all platforms. They are talking about adding enough serious IDE power over time (and the original VS shows that they know what it takes) that they could become a serious power in the open, cross-platform dev world.

They would not need to port all the Windows-specific functionality that has accreted on Visual Studio over the years to become the "new Visual Studio" for developers on all platforms.

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robotdad 3737 days ago
We released an C/C++ extension for VS Code today as well. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/03/31/cc-extens...
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umanwizard 3738 days ago
Not necessarily. Getting it to work with Wine is probably easier.

I've spent many hours running Publisher in CrossOver Office and never ran into any problems, so this sort of thing is certainly possible for complex apps.

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