Facebook has announced it was making the Visual Studio Code the default development environment. It had decided to tie up with Microsoft to “help enhance its remote development extensions in an effort to enable engineers to do remote development at scale.”
In a blog post, Facebook said it was in late 2018 that it had announcedits intention of moving on from Nuclide to Visual Studio Code. Plenty of development work had been done since then to migrate the current Nuclide functionality, along with some new features, as internal-facing extensions for Visual Studio Code. Today, the latter was being used extensively across FB in beta.
Why Visual Studio Code?
FB said Visual Studio Code was a very popular development tool, with great investment & support from Microsoft, & the open source community. It runs on macOS, Windows, & Linux, & had a “robust & well-defined extension API“.
To ensure the benefits of Visual Studio were available to all, FB said it was getting involved in helping Microsoft further improve remote development extensions, “with a lens on enabling engineers to do remote development at scale with Visual Studio Code.”
To help Microsoft enhance its product offering, FB had provided inputs because of its “experience and expertise supporting remote development for Nuclide.”
We’re also excited that the remote development capabilities added by Microsoft are available as extensions for anyone using Visual Studio Code.
– Facebook
