Post by @urlyman@mastodon.social

When the team at Microsoft decided to call their text editor Visual Studio which bit of it did they suppose was especially ‘visual’?

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Astronot

@astronot@mastodon.online 22 min. ago

@urlyman visual studio added their latest attempt at wysiwyg. It was horrible, but less horrible than visual basic's wysiwyg. Both were unusable and quickly forgotten.

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@zzt@mas.to 27 min. ago

@urlyman @ozzelot the answer has to be the most disappointing combination of stolen valor from Visual Basic and some 90s “something something now your team will have vision” corporate babble

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social 24 min. ago

@zzt ha!

And what’s ‘visual’ about Visual Basic? Wasn’t last time I fell into a pit of it.

@ozzelot

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social 30 min. ago

…and if VS Code is the *visual* rendering of code, wtaf were they doing before?

Uttering incantations and offering up human sacrifices while blindfold?

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social 27 min. ago

…This has bugged me for years but only now have I asked it

Hugo Mills

@darkling@mstdn.social 21 min. ago

@urlyman I think it's just continuing the branding of their dev tools, starting from Visual Basic (which integrated a UI designer). They then added Visual {C,C++,J,F#,C#} and Visual Source Safe (which wasn't particularly safe). Visual Studio is simply carrying on in that tradition.