Posts tagged ‘Open-Source’
Visual Studio Code: Use, Build, Improve
An Open-Source Project
In a previous post, I mentioned that I plan to participate in an open-source project as part of my sabbatical activities. After looking at quite a few projects, I found one that I believe will give me the experience I want- which is to get firsthand understanding of software development work-flow and practices in an open-source project.
A Cross-Platform Code Editor
The project is Visual Studio Code. VS Code is a lightweight, cross-platform, coding editor that supports plug-ins. It’s not an IDE, although with the right plug-ins it can give you all the power of a modern IDE. It is very similar to Sublime Text or Atom. In fact, it is built on Electron, the same framework used by Atom. (Electron is a framework for building desktop apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.) (more…)