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If one could bet money & not just time/effort/knowledge on tech stacks, Microsoft's would be a great discount right now. They've been employing large amounts o

If one could bet money & not just time/effort/knowledge on tech stacks, Microsoft's would be a great discount right now. They've been employing large amounts of very well known devs to become dev advocates in every popular language/field out there. Visual Studio Code has overtaken Sublime & Atom as the most popular text editor in just about any demo I see in most front side web development. MS is now friends & compatible with many of the other cool tools out there. MySQL, PostgreSQL, Linux, etc. A lot of demos I see use .NET with PostgreSQL on Linux. If you've never used Visual Studio's Full IDE or Azure or the .NET framework, you're missing out on some huge productivity gains. I use JavaScript more than .NET. I'm better at JS than .NET by far. I really dig hosts like Netlify. That said, if I need to spin up a MVP for a project, it's faster, better quality & easier with VS, Azure & .NET for me at least. Startups really underestimate this one I think. From what I've heard, it's also a great platform with Xamarin for mobile, with Unity for Games, etc. Add on the experimental work going on with compiling to Web Assembly & the .NET framework has a great chance to be running anywhere & everywhere.

reitanqild 8y ago
> If you've never used Visual Studio's Full IDE or ... you're missing out on some huge productivity gains. I've yet to see anything standard Visual Studio does better than Netbeans or JetBrains tools (besides language specific things) but I am yet again willing to be enlightened if someone can explain it to me. Background: I have months of experience with Visual Studio (more if you count back to school), months on IntelliJ and years on eclipse and Netbeans.
- beagle3 8y ago
  Visual Studio / C++ 6.0 (from 1998!) was by far the best C++ environment at least until 2013 came out (The last version I used was VS2012) - You never had to wait for it even in 2000, when I first used it, and definitely not later. VS2005 (or 2008? can't remember), which I had to switch to because for x64 work, was unbearably slow and unresponsive in comparison -- although the general standards of responsiveness have come down, so today it might not be so bad (see, e.g., Atom, VSCode, everything JetBrains compared to old-guard Sublime) From my only-slightly-nostalgia-tinted experience, I would correct GP's post to say "If you've never used VC++6 full ide" ...
  - mattferderer 8y ago
    I didn't want to comment on the others because it's been years since I've used Eclipse or JetBrain's IDEs. They were sluggish back in the day but so was Visual Studio. They made me jump to Sublime. The latest release of Visual Studio has performed very well for me as long as I avoid ReSharper (somewhat ironic). Fortunately they've included a lot of those features in the professional & enterprise versions.
Wintereise 8y ago
> If you've never used Visual Studio's Full IDE or Azure or the .NET framework, you're missing out on some huge productivity gains. We recently switched from VS2017 to JetBrains Rider at $dayjob. The productivity gains from NOT having to wait around for VS (slowest UI contender in my opinion once your project gets sufficiently complex) were off the charts. This statement may have been true a couple years ago, but it no longer is (at least in my opinion).

reitanqild 8y ago

> If you've never used Visual Studio's Full IDE or ... you're missing out on some huge productivity gains. I've yet to see anything standard Visual Studio does better than Netbeans or JetBrains tools (besides language specific things) but I am yet again willing to be enlightened if someone can explain it to me. Background: I have months of experience with Visual Studio (more if you count back to school), months on IntelliJ and years on eclipse and Netbeans.

beagle3 8y ago
Visual Studio / C++ 6.0 (from 1998!) was by far the best C++ environment at least until 2013 came out (The last version I used was VS2012) - You never had to wait for it even in 2000, when I first used it, and definitely not later. VS2005 (or 2008? can't remember), which I had to switch to because for x64 work, was unbearably slow and unresponsive in comparison -- although the general standards of responsiveness have come down, so today it might not be so bad (see, e.g., Atom, VSCode, everything JetBrains compared to old-guard Sublime) From my only-slightly-nostalgia-tinted experience, I would correct GP's post to say "If you've never used VC++6 full ide" ...
- mattferderer 8y ago
  I didn't want to comment on the others because it's been years since I've used Eclipse or JetBrain's IDEs. They were sluggish back in the day but so was Visual Studio. They made me jump to Sublime. The latest release of Visual Studio has performed very well for me as long as I avoid ReSharper (somewhat ironic). Fortunately they've included a lot of those features in the professional & enterprise versions.

Wintereise 8y ago

> If you've never used Visual Studio's Full IDE or Azure or the .NET framework, you're missing out on some huge productivity gains. We recently switched from VS2017 to JetBrains Rider at $dayjob. The productivity gains from NOT having to wait around for VS (slowest UI contender in my opinion once your project gets sufficiently complex) were off the charts. This statement may have been true a couple years ago, but it no longer is (at least in my opinion).