S6:E1 - VS Code in the Browser, Facebook Internal Documents, and Corporate Open Source

In this episode, we talk about the explosive Facebook internal documents, a merger between Ruby Central and Ruby Together, and the short lived removal of .NET’s Hot Reload feature, which had a lot of developers frustrated and confused by the decision. Then we speak with Brigit Murtaugh, Program Manager II at Microsoft, and João Moreno, Principal Software Engineer for VS Code about how they created a new lightweight version of VS Code that can run fully in the browser.

Show Notes

• DevDiscuss (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• Avalanche (sponsor)
• The Facebook Files: A Wall Street Journal investigation
• Facebook's Lost Generation
• Facebook Wrestles With the Features It Used to Define Social Networking
• Facebook Failed the People Who Tried to Improve It
• DeepMind’s XLand, Android 12 Beta's Camera Switches, a Colorism Issue With Face Filters, and a Senior’s Robot Companion
• Ruby Together and Ruby Central, Coming Together
• Update on .NET Hot Reload progress and Visual Studio 2022 Highlights
• Microsoft angers the .NET open source community with a controversial decision
• Is There an Echo Chamber?
• vscode.dev(!)

Brigit Murtaugh

Brigit Murtaugh is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, where she focuses on remote and web experiences, including the remote development extensions and VS Code for the Web.

João Moreno

João Moreno is a Principal Software Engineer on the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft, where he focuses on UI, engineering, cross-plat releases and more recently, vscode.dev.