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Why nit just know your place? Microsoft is fine (or at least was fine with) targeting massive enterprises and signing lucrative contracts with lots and lots of

Why nit just know your place? Microsoft is fine (or at least was fine with) targeting massive enterprises and signing lucrative contracts with lots and lots of zeroes and lock-in. Why not adopt some unix philosophy into the ms ecosystem and just do one thing well. I was willing to sympathesize with this article until the visual studio destroying everyone else feature set wise comment. Despite what you may think you are about the topic, you are just inviting a holy war. As someone who has used visual studio, eclipse, and text mate regularly I would be hard pressed to say that visual studio destroys anything. I would prefer eclipse since it can do things like "open type" and "organize imports" natively. Things that come for free in the free and open source eclipse ide require you to buy the $80 resharper plugin for your $400 ide.

Encosia 16y ago
Everyone's going to have different favorite editors; nothing wrong with that. However, the free version of Visual Studio 2010 has both the features you cited. (and for what it's worth, I wasn't the one who downvoted your comment)
hello_moto 16y ago
The main problem with Visual Studio is the "soft" vendor lock-in problem: if I want to use VS.NET with SVN (via AnkhSVN), the experience sucks compare to Eclipse and Subclipse. Basically, VS.NET wants you to use other MS products as well such as MTM, TFS, to be very very productive in MS environment. Using VS.NET, SVN, TeamCity and a mixed bags of other software will not give a smooth experience compare to using all-MS or go with Open Source.