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Never seen these bugs, have worked with a lot of big projects over the years, hundreds of thousands LOC. This is over a period of over a decade. I’ve used VS si
by twodave 8y ago
Never seen these bugs, have worked with a lot of big projects over the years, hundreds of thousands LOC. This is over a period of over a decade. I’ve used VS since 2005.
ReSharper is a pile but you can’t blame VS for that as it’s a 3rd party add-on.
Never even had a machine with 30gb of RAM but also never had VS eat it all.
Test runner difficulties almost always boil down to one of a few things: test explorer targeting the wrong process architecture, configuration inconsistencies betweeen projects/solution, and the rare occurrence I’ve seen involved some project level settings that had become corrupted. Obviously if you can’t build a dll then test explorer won’t find your tests.
Really I’m not even close to alone in arguing VS is the best IDE on the market—I never said it was perfect. Still, I prefer it over both XCode and IntelliJ IDEA (and really any of the other JetBrains IDEs, ever had to sit and wait for your IDE to finish “Indexing files” so you can try to build?! Ugh), both of which I have used full-time. Visual Studio’s only real rival to me is another editor made by Microsoft: VS Code.
- aliswe 8y agoYes I believe that VS is the best IDE as well, Code isn't really there yet in terms of functionality but what it does it does better. Except the Git integration ...