The Story of Visual Studio Code (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

We’re back in NYC at Microsoft Connect(); talking about the backstory of Visual Studio Code with Julia Liuson (Corporate Vice President of Visual Studio), Chris Dias (Principal Program Manager of Visual Studio and .NET), and PJ Meyer (Product Manager).

We talk about the beginnings of the Visual Studio product line, how Microsoft missed the internet, how the community is judging Microsoft and looking at them with a very old lense, how Visual Studio Code evolved from lessons learned with their cloud based editor called Monaco, how they had to radically change to reach developers beyond Windows, and how this open source project is thriving.

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Featuring:

• Julia Liuson – Website
• Chris Dias – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• PJ Meyer – Twitter, GitHub
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• Julia Liuson on Wikipedia
• Visual Studio Code
• Visual Studio
• Visual Studio Code on GitHub
• GitHub CEO Talks About How Microsoft and Apple Are Changing
• The State of the Octoverse 2017

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