It's not using just the compiler. This agent is configured to use the full version of Visual Studio for some reason, and building through that, which requires a license. You can build via the msbuild system, which doesn't require a license.

There are companies selling a relabeled GCC with the O flags behind the license check.

How is the Irish honor system different than a regular honor system?

certificates fucking destroy everything in my work for an hour once every year because of expiry

So they can charge subscriptions

I use vim btw

Moving to the cloud is a business decision not a technical one.

Csuite sees us spending Capex 200K on a server or 2 and several thousand opex per year to maintain it.

Cloud takes that 200K Capex and move it to Opex with significant markup markup.

From a technical pov we st it as a waste but business will business itself into cost overruns

The company I work for loves Azure. If it's not available as an Azure service it won't be used (except for uptime kuma). Some time ago there was a global Azure outage and we could do literally nothing. All tasks and code were on Azure Devops and all communication went through Teams and Outlook.

The webhook integration has also recently been removed from Teams so uptime kuma also didn't work for like a week until it was fixed by using Azure's automation service.

Azure is absolute trash. Its like Word but for the cloud.

Walled garden or die

Thats how i read azure

If you look at it as generic could provider it's not good, but if you look at it as making m$ run they're software instead of you it's awesome because most m$ software is not fun to run

For using msbuild or vsbuild to build C projects.

Can be installed standalone but it's typically just easier to install the full VS suite because on a shared runner it's better to include the entire kitchen.

I think they forgot to pay themselves to use their product.

No, not some internal company, just Microsoft being Microsoft. So all Windows pipelines. They also have Linux based pipelines so not completely all pipelines.

But given that a lot of people build dotnet stuff on Azure, the 'windows-latest' image is usually the default. So a lot of pipelines

As is tradition with MS and their complicated naming policies Visual Studio is not VS Code.

Visual Studio and VS Code are two separate products, I'm afraid. Visual Studio is a .NET IDE and build tool, as opposed to VS Code which is essentially an extensible text editor.

Edit: also the screenshot looks like it might be from Slack?

That's not a Discord bot, it's a Slack RSS App / RSS subscription.

Event Source: https://status.dev.azure.com/_event/543117809

It's pretty useful 'for work' because occasionally you'll get notifications when parts of infra might be down (like your build server)