So Microsoft released today its first application for Linux (I think). It’s called Visual Studio Code and it supports the following languages:
C++, jade, PHP, Python, XML, Batch, F#, DockerFile, Coffee Script, Java, HandleBars, R, Objective-C, PowerShell, Luna, Visual Basic, and Markdown.
Announced at it’s Build Developer Conference., it purportedly will not only allow for cross-platform code-editing, but also for cross-platform development. Does this mean you can export projects to certain target platforms? I dunno… Will you abandon Sublime Text for it? That’s remains to be seen, but we have made a tool to help you try it out! The Linux version was released as a zip file the contains the executable and supporting files. Surprisingly, Microsoft elected to deny us of a simple installer that puts it in /opt where it belongs, generates a .desktop file, and installs an icon… Oh brother…
Want to take Visual Studio Code for a spin? Follow these steps.
- Download the Powerbase installer script for Visual Studio Code
- Become root
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sudo -i
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- Change to your download directory (probably ~/Downloads/)
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cd /home/*yourusername*/Downloads/
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- Run the installer script. If there are no errors, it will just exit…
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sh ./vscodeinstaller.sh
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- That’s it. Nothing special about this one and it should work in any Linux distribution. Just open your launcher and start typing Visual Studio Code. You should see a nice, fancy icon that looks like this.
Visual Studio Code’s gigantic 1024×1024 icon. Yeah, something vector would have been nice.
