Visual Studio Code

The first reaction I had when I downloaded and installed Visual Studio Code on my Mac, at some point during 2015, wasn’t really positive: in my mind I was expecting to see “Visual Studio” itself, and not a simple text editor; the name was, as far as I was concerned, misleading, or worse, just plain wrong. I was expecting a full-blown IDE, with all the bells and whistles, and instead I saw a rather clunky, simple text editor without much interest. I did use Visual Studio since around version 6.0, back in the 1990s, so I was expecting the full write + debug + deploy experience for .NET and C# (and probably other languages like C++) but this was not it. Of course, Microsoft did eventually release a thing called “Visual Studio for Mac” at some point, based on MonoDevelop from Xamarin, but I have tried using it (even professionally around 2018) and it was one of the worst products I can remember (which is sadly to be expected from a company known for releasing quite terrible products most…

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