The community edition of fat Visual Studio is free and has almost all
the features you need in an IDE. VS Code is marketed as a text editor as
it doesn't ship with integrated debuggers etc. But once you load it up
with extensions it's an IDE. It's incredibly popular. The Python
extension has more downloads then the entire population of England. It's
an Electron application that uses Node.JS so writing extensions in
TypeScript is simple. It has a really intuitive and easy to use UI API.
Gone are the days of the dreaded Eclipse plugins! It uses the Language
Server Protocol which was designed by Microsoft and has revolutionized
editors. You can asynchronously pass off expensive code analysis tasks
to a back end such as clangd so it doesn't block the editor. Broadcom
has generously provided language servers for the VS Code Z Open Editor
extension for HLASM, COBOL, REXX and PL/I. And it's free! Hook it up
with the Zowe explorer (which only requires z/OSMF) and you're cooking
with gas.
On 6/1/22 4:26 am, Charles Mills wrote:
VS comes in a couple of families of flavors. "Real" VS ranges from free to huge
bucks. VS Code is a different product (muy similar!) and completely free. Full-function
product. Nothing basic (<g>) about it.
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Bob Bridges
Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:17 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Wait, Visual Studio is free?!
Visual Studio is free? How can that be? Last time I looked into it, only five
years ago I think (ok, maybe ten; time flies) it would have cost me something
like $600. When did this happen...and why?
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-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Charles Mills
Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 14:29
VS Code is a great IDE, includes C# and C/C++ and many other languages, and is
totally, absolutely free.
https://code.visualstudio.com/
I think there may be free plugins for "mainframe" languages and development.
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of Bob Bridges
Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 9:57 AM
....is there a OO class (for example) that can interact with object-oriented
languages such as VBS, Jscript, ooREXX etc? Or is it time for me to buy a C
compiler (again)? Or maybe VB Studio, or whatever it's called?
(I don't really care for VB as a language; I love it in one way because it's
the language in which I first finally got what OO programming is about, but I
recognize that there must be languages that do the same thing more easily. Is
it time for me to acquire and learn Perl? Python? Ruby? Java?)
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