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Discussion on: 5 EXACT alternatives of VSCode!

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cubiclesocial

Question: Are any of these options Portable Apps-compliant? (I know Visual Studio isn't. VS Code itself has a semi-portable version.) If not, then they are non-starters for me. I use portable apps almost exclusively for nearly all new applications. I don't install anything on my system drive if I can avoid it.

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Muhimen

You can go for the clouds then.

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Portable Apps is not cloud software. It's local software that runs in a portable fashion (i.e. not installed with a traditional installer), hearkening back to the MS-DOS era where an entire product ran within its own subdirectory and didn't touch anything else on the system.

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Muhimen

I meant as we don't have any portable app available in the options you can go with cloud ones as the dont mess around with your local drives

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River • Edited

code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/...
Most developer apps these days are portable in the sense that you can pass the arg/env to point them to any directory outside system, but people don't really care anymore. I stopped caring about this after university when I stopped using library computers.

Asking if VS is portable doesn't really make sense given that the thing you develop with it (.Net) isn't.