“Instead of making them go to Windows, we want to meet them where they are.” Developers on these platforms are also often perfectly happy with using a regular code editor like Sublime Text instead of a full IDE like Visual Studio. ‘Soma’ Somasegar, Microsoft’s corporate VP of its developer division, told me earlier this week.
“A lot of people use Windows as their development environment, but we are also seeing a lot of people on Linux and Mac,” S.
The full Visual Studio is still Windows-only, but today’s announcement shows the company’s commitment to supporting other platforms. This marks the first time that Microsoft offers developers a true cross-platform code editor. The application is still officially in preview, but you can now download it here. At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of Visual Studio Code, a lightweight cross-platform code editor for writing modern web and cloud applications that will run on OS X, Linux and Windows.
