Why making Visual Studio free for small work groups is an important change for VWs devs.

[Indigo Mertel]

Microsoft has announced that it will make Visual Studio, its professional development platform, free for students, startups, open source developers and small companies to get access to it easily with no restriction on the usage, valid for production scenarios and commercial apps, with the only exception of enterprise applications.

 

This move will have interesting implications for Virtual Worlds developers.

This is important if Linden Lab will stick with the choice of adopting C# as the scripting language of choice for SL2. And, my guess is that LL will base SL2 rendering on Unity 3D. Visual Studio has a free plugin to develop for Unity 3D. Furthermore, the fact that MS has finally decided to officially port the .NET core to the Linux and Mac worlds is another important change.

And now that the OpenSim devs are talking about adopting C# as a scripting language, this move may have an impact on OpenSim as well. If you top all this with the fact that MS also offers a free repository system (TFS) for work groups of up to 5 people since a couple of years and that Visual Studio seamlessly integrates with GitHub as well, this move can put a complete multi-platform professional development system into the hands of a lot of VWs scripters. It's an important change.

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[Estelle Pienaar]

These are intersting speculations and it would make sense to use existing and widely adopted platforms. If it would really be the direction of LL, then I'd be for the first time excited about SL2.0. But for the time beig SL and LSL is what we got and I enjoy workig with it.

[Dresden Ceriano]

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Estelle Pienaar wrote:

These are intersting speculations and it would make sense to use existing and widely adopted platforms. If it would really be the direction of LL, then I'd be for the first time excited about SL2.0. But for the time beig SL and LSL is what we got and I enjoy workig with it.

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If I'm remembering correctly, Ebbe did state that using a more universal scripting language is precisely what LL is intending to do for the new platform (which I refuse to refer to as SL2), but that they had yet to decide which one.  Who knows if this development will influence that decision... but it is interesting.

...Dres

[irihapeti]

LL build/make SL viewer codes on VS 2010. I read they are working on a new make process for this

am hoping that somebody will do the same for this VS 2013 Community Edition soon and post/publish somewhere. bc I havent been able to work it all myself yet (:

[ObviousAltIsObvious]

the updated build system includes a conversion to VS2013, so you may only need to wait for them to finish.

[irihapeti]

thanks (:

i will wait like you suggest

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to any Linden who might read this. Hurry up ok !! q;

 

please (: