You've heard it correctly. Microsoft's VisualStudio is now open source. You can check out the code on their gitHub account:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
If you want to run it on Linux, make sure you have these installed:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode
If you want to run it on Linux, make sure you have these installed:
- NodeJS > v0.12
- Python > v2.7
make
- A proper C/C++ compiler tool chain, for example GCC
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
cd vscode && npm install -g mocha gulp
./scripts/npm.sh install --arch=x64
# for 32bit Linux
#./scripts/npm.sh install --arch=ia32
In order to run it type in this code:./scripts/code.sh