he's saying windows as a programming platform is dead. You can keep .Net and Java, its just going to be .Net core and Java, and its going to run on linux machines.
Its a matter of time until Visual Studio runs on linux, but that's the direction they're heading. Visual Studio Code already does
Not exactly. I'm saying that Windows as a deployment platform is dead. You can keep developing on Windows and deploy to Linux. I do it all of the time.
But I agree that frameworks which can ONLY deploy to Windows (.Net Framework) will die in favor of those that are cross platform (.Net Core).
Linux won a long time ago and is so far ahead in tooling and ecosystem support that it just isn't worth it to compete in the server OS space. And that's better for everyone since we can consolidate effort and products.
Like every monoculture things either stagnate, or we start getting features just to work around botherom instead of actual innovation.
I tremble to imagine how many cores and GBs would be needed to have VSCode with the same capabilities of Visual Studio Ultimate, while running at comparable performance.
Specially when comparing with the likes of Sublime, which I gladly payed for.
Wouldn't that encourage a switch to a totally new system? If you have to do a ton of ground-up work to get VS working 64 bit, you could argue you as well expend the same effort in getting VS Code to a level where it can be used instead of VS.
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ricom/2015/12/29/revisiting...
What's worse is that VS doesn't even follow its own recommendations. Even with the massive upgrades over the past year, it's still extremely slow and laggy on any sizable solution.
In process plugins look cool, but they just bring everything down when they misbehave, plus it is another opportunity for exploits.
Peformance can be improved by actually writing the plugins in languages that compile to native code and eventually use shared memory.
Now if one uses node for everything naturally it doesn't scale.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/
And there is always JetBrains Rider for Linux