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Microsoft’s Hot Reload Drama Is a Reminder to Pay Attention

Last week, there was quite a bit of talk about how Microsoft was essentially trying to pull a fast one on its.NET community by reversing course and removing the “hot reload” feature from.NET and instead scoping it to Visual Code 2022. The move led to a fury of responses across the internet, a slew of seemingly cryptictweets from the likes of Scott Hanselman and others within Microsoft, and an article that asked the question can we trust Microsoft with open source?

VS Code is a massive success because of its community..NET is a much more impactful platform because of its community.

The article sums up the scenario nicely, asking if we can trust Microsoft, or just a small number of open source advocates within the company, to herald an open source project such as.NET into the future.

Microsoft supporting open source is still to this day an act of appeasement, not contrition,” Trauzzi writes, citing examples like the inability of extensions to work on non-Microsoft Visual Studio Code builds.