Interest in 64-bit VS can be traced back to as early as 2011 [1]. 6 years ago, there was an MSDN essay on why there wasn't going to be 64-bit VS for the foreseeable future [2] mainly citing issues speed, pointer size, and zombie code. I wonder what changed their minds. It's not like these issues got any easier over years.<p>[1]<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170922120502/https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-2015/suggestions/2255687-make-vs-scalable-by-switching-to-64-bit?page=1&per_page=20" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20170922120502/https://visualstu...</a>
[2]<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160119114948/http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ricom/archive/2015/12/29/revisiting-64-bit-ness-in-visual-studio-and-elsewhere.aspx" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20160119114948/http://blogs.msdn...</a>
I guess the big news is the support for 64-bit. Good that it didn't take them that long - the first Windows version on a 64 bit architecture is not even 20 years old yet. Windows XP for IA-64 was released in October 2001 [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#Windows_XP_64-Bit_Edition" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_editions#Windows_XP...</a>
It's pretty frustrating as a Visual Basic user that Microsoft has taken the "just don't talk about it" approach, at this point. It's still "supported" and allegedly still "valued", but Microsoft continues to make it clear the way forward for .NET development is new platforms that conveniently, they aren't bothering to support with VB. MAUI will not support VB. Blazor will not support VB (despite community members getting it to work). If you want to write a cross-platform <i>command line</i> app, shockingly that is the most modern thing you can do with VB, but that's where it ends.<p>VB is officially just relegated to WinForms, WPF, and UWP, all frameworks that Microsoft has pretty much decided they are done with.
At what point/to what degree do we think VSCode will feed back into Visual Studio in the future (in terms of UX, implementation, or otherwise)? I don't see them <i>totally</i> converging any time soon, because Visual Studio has a huge legacy audience that needs continuity, and not just "it basically can do the same things". But I believe Live Share started in Code, for example.<p>There's clearly already some visual resemblance- I'm just curious what the future might hold for the relationship between these two products