Interesting. Also very interesting, is this graph form the survey showing how the technologies relate to each other, and from that one *might* surmise the use cases:
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018#correlated-technologies If I’m reading that correctly, it looks like VSCode is the preferred IDE for JS/TS developers for web applications. Devs working more directly on Windows Desktop seem to prefer the full VS, but that might also be affected by the demographics - younger developers are preferring VSCode and they are gravitating towards web platforms rather than desktop. > On Aug 27, 2019 w35d239, at 7:37 AM, Dale Phurrough <d...@hidale.com> wrote: > > I noticed earlier the use of "VS" and was watching it for context. Now I see > more clearly what was intended. > You want to actually use the Visual Studio UI and the Visual Studio compiler. > And consider VS Code a lesser option "at a stretch". > > I've tons of experience with Visual Studio. It is good for legacy Visual > Studio projects, large in-house teams, and rigid development cycles. None of > those three align well with GnuCash. > Contrast that to VS Code. Personally, I use it for everything now. And I use > it across platforms, across projects, and always with open-source projects. > > This "windows developer" that you are seeking...are you sure they want Visual > Studio? Or is VS Code a better fit? I ask because the approach one takes will > be different between the two; and likely not worth the effort to support both. > Each of the two will have their own possibilities of: editor, packager, and > compiler/linker. Luckily, there is some overlap. > Here is recently statistics and reports on dev tool use VS Code and Visual > Studio. VS Code is ahead and the younger devs (via hires) prefer it. > https://visualstudiomagazine.com/blogs/data-driver/2018/12/2018-vs-code.aspx _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
