So, opened and typed “Visual Studio Code.” First things I saw on the official website were: multi-platform, more than 10 thousands stars on GitHub (GitHub? Nice!), and extensions.

To be honest, my first thought was, “Visual Studio? Microsoft? I don’t think so,” but well…the customer is always right, heh? My first experience with Visual Studio CodeĪ couple of weeks ago, a customer told us that they would start using TypeScript, and asked me to take a look at the Visual Studio Code editor, because someone had recommended it to him as a good tool to code using TypeScript. It was so slow and so interested in consuming your RAM! Then I heard about Sublime Text, it was love at first sight: fast, simple, basic, and powerful at the same time, with a lot of plug-ins to extend its functionality. So, I started to think: “Microsoft is very good, but maybe if they would start to share their code or listening to their users in a different way, they could have much better products.”Īt the university, studying Computer Science, the professors recommended Eclipse as the perfect IDE with so many features: autocompletion, references to the methods definition, linters, and so on. With Linux, I started to see a new world, open-source applications, a community, people sharing their knowledge, their own code, developers improving software made by other developers. I loved all the Microsoft products, even their hardware, like Surface…until I met Linux when I joined Altoros.

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