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We convinced ourselves that what we needed was a way to run VS Code in two places at once, to run the developer tools locally and connect to a set of development services running remotely in the context of a physical or virtual machine (for example, a container or VM).

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Having to duplicate the development environment on both Windows and Linux defeated the purpose of having WSL at all. If you have Python 2.7 and Flask installed on Windows (or none at all!) and Python 3.7 and Django installed in the Linux distro, you wouldn't get proper completions or linting because VS Code was looking at the Windows versions of everything. It didn't make sense to do special work for every runtime, as we did for Node.js debugging.

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We did work to enable remote debugging for Node.js, and we figured we could simply install a small script to enable launching code from the bash shell.īut, it just wasn't right. Install VS Code and ( carefully at the time!) edit the Windows file system as normal. Hearing about these challenges we started to look into WSL support and it looked simple enough. Worse (in our opinion!) developers had to sacrifice core VS Code experiences like IntelliSense (completions), linting, and debugging, in order to work against these environments. SSH and Vim (or local tools with file synchronization) work, but they can be slow, error prone, and generally lack the productivity of modern development tools.īrowser-based tools are useful in a variety of scenarios, but developers don't want to give up the richness and familiarity that desktop tools provide, or their existing locally installed tool chains. Remote Desktop can work, but it is difficult or impossible to set up on some Linux distributions, and the development experience can be 'laggy'.

Throughout these conversations, we also kept hearing the same challenges developers face with this type of development. In fact, the third most commented issue in the VS Code repository is to support running code from a Bash terminal in a Linux distro on Windows. The rise in popularity of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is powered in part because it makes it easy to set up a contained development environment, including the target operating system. Python developers want to switch to VS Code but can't, because they need to use containers and virtual machines as development environments configured for a specific Python stack.īecause the code bases are so large, we see engineers at shops like Facebook (and Microsoft!) use editors like vim to work remotely against secure and powerful 'developer VMs', using alternative cloud-based search and navigation services that scale beyond what even the best laptop can handle.ĭata Scientists building and training data models often need massive storage and compute services to analyze large datasets that can't be stored or processed even on a robust desktop. Unless we feel it's time to flatten that machine :), we hesitate to try out a new stack like Rust, Go, Node, or Python3, for fear of 'messing up' our current, well-tuned environment. We saw many developers trying to use VS Code to develop against containers and remote VMs configured with specific development and runtime stacks, simply because it is too hard, too disruptive, and in some cases impossible, to set up these development environments locally.

With the growth in popularity of VS Code, we've had the privilege and opportunity to talk to more and more users with different development environments, many vastly different than our own, to try to identify ways in which we could move VS Code forward to address real developer pain points.Īn interesting pattern emerged during these conversations. Note: You'll need to use the Insiders build for now, but remote development support will eventually be available in the Stable release. You can get started right away by installing the Remote Development Extension Pack. Today we're excited to announce the preview of three new extensions for Visual Studio Code that enable seamless development in Containers, remotely on physical or virtual machines, and with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Node.js Development with Visual Studio Code and Azure.Moving from Local to Remote Development.

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