Visual Studio is an old and bloated beast that predates Staya Nadella, but since he took the helm the Visual Studio Code[1] project has been underway, and it's

Visual Studio is an old and bloated beast that predates Staya Nadella, but since he took the helm the Visual Studio Code[1] project has been underway, and it's worth checking out if you haven't. It's cross-platform and closer to Notepad++ or Sublime Text than Visual Studio, but with full IntelliSense. I also have the latest Visual Studio Community Edition installed and it's "only" 1.25GB, but I don't have any extras installed, just the base plus some extensions. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com https://code.visualstudio.com