Because they keep churning out garbage. And the only "good" stuff they do make, they don't open source, or even release it on multiple platforms.
Not to mention the fact that they are extremely user hostile. Putting ads in a paid for OS? And mining private data. If their OS was free I'd at least say they had an excuse to do that.
> Because they keep churning out garbage. And the only "good" stuff they do make, they don't open source, or even release it on multiple platforms.
.NET Core runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and is BSD licensed, and totally not all garbage (though I'm guessing you will disagree with me here with no backing facts because what defines garbage is mostly opinionated views). VS Code is the same scenario. Wow it astounds me the lack of understanding coming from you.
Yes I will concede that .net is not garbage. I have written code with it before and it's pretty average. It doesn't really give me anything that I can't do with Java or C++ (or other programming languages)
So what I'm saying is that it doesn't really bring anything worthwhile to the table.
VS Code. Yeah, I am not at all interested in an electron based code editor. And yet again, there is nothing new or novel here. There are dozens of other code editors that are free, cross platform, and very powerful.
If they open sourced (or even released on multiple platforms) Visual Studio, then I'd take notice. Same for Office.
> Wow it astounds me the lack of understanding coming from you.
And I'm likewise astounded at all the people falling for microsoft's brainwashing PR bullshit.
> VS Code. Yeah, I am not at all interested in an electron based code editor. And yet again, there is nothing new or novel here. There are dozens of other code editors that are free, cross platform, and very powerful.
Again with the lack of understanding, Microsoft produced a new standard for editors called Language Server Protocol[0] that once implemented in an editor and for a language can be used across editors and IDEs. They are doing more contributions through VS Code than you realize.
As for Open Sourcing VS I would love that but VS Code is snappy and awesome as it is so it doesn't bother me. VS Code with the right plugins (same can be said of Emacs, Vi etc) is amazing. For Dlang / Rust the best support I've seen for either language is for VS Code which is the youngest mainstream editor out there atm. Don't simply dismiss VS Code it's fame / usage speaks for it's own quality as a tool for editors. You even see in Sublime Text and Atom discussions that a number of people have just simply switched to VS Code.
They don't claim they love open source, or that they love Linux.
But microsoft does. So by not open sourcing or releasing their main products on Linux, they are being hypocritical assholes who just want to look good.
Not to mention the fact that they are extremely user hostile. Putting ads in a paid for OS? And mining private data. If their OS was free I'd at least say they had an excuse to do that.