VS Code acknowledges its elders: Makefile projects get an official extension – and VIM mode is on the backlog
Updates for modern code editor hark back to 40-year-old tools Tim Anderson Thu 18 Feb 2021 // 20:05 UTC Share Copy Makefile projects, widely used in open source development, are getting an official Microsoft extension in Visual Studio Code (VS Code), and a request for built-in VIM support is on the official backlog. Makefiles are text files containing instructions for make, a build automation tool originally written by Stuart Feldman at Bell Labs in 1976 but rewritten many times since. Building C or C++ projects with Make is old school, and makefiles seem arcane at fir...
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