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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." Care to give some ex

• megaman22 8y ago
  Visual 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