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There is some really excellent tooling that is available for .Net that I haven't been able to find real equivalents for other languages. You have to pay for it
by megaman22 8y ago
There is some really excellent tooling that is available for .Net that I haven't been able to find real equivalents for other languages. You have to pay for it with money, rather than with time and aggravation, however.
Microsoft-centric devs seem, on the average, to be less averse to paying for software tools than your average Python/Java/JS dev.
- ahoka 8y ago"There is some really excellent tooling that is available for .Net that I haven't been able to find real equivalents for other languages." Care to give some examples? I keep hearing this, but I don't see those awesome tools when working on .NET projects.
- megaman22 8y agoVisual Studio is really unmatched, with all of the things that it can do. I still use Resharper and a few other plugins to tweak things out just the way I like them. You could do all this with a customized vim or emacs or whatever editor, but the learning curve is much lower. And while visual UI editors tend to be a trainwreck, the VS ones are about the best. RedGate makes a really nice .net performance and memory profiler. One of the things I haven't seen elsewhere that it does is being able to drill through any ORM libraries to see the SQL that is being generated and executed against your databases. LinqPad is a REPL, but it does intellisense, Nuget integration, rich output options. It's generally just a little bit more finish and usability than OSS options