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Reminds me of the time I installed Visual Studio 2015. That pig sprayed over 30 GB of files onto my HDD and still needed 3rd party plugins to be on the same lev

Reminds me of the time I installed Visual Studio 2015. That pig sprayed over 30 GB of files onto my HDD and still needed 3rd party plugins to be on the same level as IntelliJ.

alkonaut 11y ago
That's a bit excessive, did you install all of the vs stuff (all languages & tools including c++, office dev tools, silverlight, light switch etc)? If you just choose C# it's a bit better (though still big). And yes you still need Resharper, ironically made by JetBrains, for it to be on the level of IntelliJ.
- userbinator 11y ago
  VS2015's installer is notoriously uncustomisable - it installs a bunch of useless stuff without letting you choose. https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio-2015/suggestions/2207833-make-the-visual-studio-installer-more-customizable https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...
gelasio 11y ago
It's amazing how one man's "pig" can be a ton of other people's "best IDE that there is". At least in the case of Visual Studio...I don't hear quite as many people naming IntelliJ as "the best". Not even close.
- bitmapbrother 11y ago
  The only people I hear calling Visual Studio "the best" are usually .NET developers. Considering their lack of choices I'm not surprised.
  - wallstop 11y ago
    Anecdotal counterpoint: I develop java and python at work, C# and C++ at home, use / have used Eclipse, IntelliJ, ST + plugins, vim, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio for development. Of all of the above, I've found that Visual Studio is by far the most pleasant to work in environment (for C# and C++), hands down.