MS's devenv is excellent, and IMHO doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Folk often talk of Windows and Office as the twin pillars of MS, but I'd say Visual

MS's devenv is excellent, and IMHO doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Folk often talk of Windows and Office as the twin pillars of MS, but I'd say Visual Studio is the third pillar. MS has always done a great job of dev relations with MSDN, cheap or free tools, sample code and excellent blogs like Raymond Chen's Old New Thing. JetBrain's IntelliJ and PyCharm, as well as Firebug and the Chrome debugger have improved things for devs outside the MS ecosystem, but MS are still ahead. Mixed language debugging in Visual Studio still amazes me. As a Python C++ dev I'd love to have a Python IDE that would enable me to debug C++ .pyds.