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> 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
by 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 agoVisual 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 agoI 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.