3 ms·

My take is that the author doesn't have anything against the debugger per se, but rather it seems he prefers vim as a code editor. I've never used vim for C# b

My take is that the author doesn't have anything against the debugger per se, but rather it seems he prefers vim as a code editor. I've never used vim for C# but I've used it for other projects, and you do get spoiled by its responsiveness once you get it down. So if you're in that workflow, it's a shame that for debugging you have to open up the beast, wait for it to load, wait while it figures out what .csproj files have changed, wait while it uses all your system RAM, wait while it notifies you about all the Azure plugin updates, wait while it thinks a little more about who knows what, just to start a debugging session. That's where having one tool that does one job great comes in handy. Not to mention, it does seem like a great deep-dive project to learn about things. In my experience it's projects like these that really increase your dev skills. High-level tech like writing todo apps in a million different web frameworks doesn't.

gmueckl 8y ago
If you are on Windows and are using VS for debugging, you should really rethink your workflow and consider using all of it and most importantly, launching it once and keep working in it. Launching it seperately for each new debugging session seems really foolish. Even just having it reload csproj files is faster than completely restarting it. If the debugger is written just for the heck of it, I can totally get behind this reason. No amount of reading can replace practical experience.
- kkarakk 8y ago
  That's the problem, ms is creating these amazing open source solutions and hitching the rotting carcass of visual studio to all of them.Even visual studio code is such a joy to use in comparison to even visual studio 2019.however you can't for some reason run solution based projects in code.i'm currently making xamarin apps and boy is it a fucking chore to do in visual studio to the point where the whole program crashes routinely in a normal workday(switching to flutter for this reason). having an answer that would let me escape from the arcanities of visual studio in a corporate environment would be a joy
  - gmueckl 8y ago
    While I do use VS Code, I have not gotten it to a point where it is that much more than yet another text editor to me. I do a lot of work in C++ and C# and there VS proper is miles ahead in terms of coding and debugging support. Admittedly, this is partly also because of Resharper. But I do want all the annotations and refactorings and stuff offered by these tools because they speed my work up by a huge amount. I wish that I had access to the same kind of tooling on Linux. Eclipse has fallen behind somewhat. And I don't know any other IDE that comes as close.

gmueckl 8y ago

If you are on Windows and are using VS for debugging, you should really rethink your workflow and consider using all of it and most importantly, launching it once and keep working in it. Launching it seperately for each new debugging session seems really foolish. Even just having it reload csproj files is faster than completely restarting it. If the debugger is written just for the heck of it, I can totally get behind this reason. No amount of reading can replace practical experience.

kkarakk 8y ago
That's the problem, ms is creating these amazing open source solutions and hitching the rotting carcass of visual studio to all of them.Even visual studio code is such a joy to use in comparison to even visual studio 2019.however you can't for some reason run solution based projects in code.i'm currently making xamarin apps and boy is it a fucking chore to do in visual studio to the point where the whole program crashes routinely in a normal workday(switching to flutter for this reason). having an answer that would let me escape from the arcanities of visual studio in a corporate environment would be a joy
- gmueckl 8y ago
  While I do use VS Code, I have not gotten it to a point where it is that much more than yet another text editor to me. I do a lot of work in C++ and C# and there VS proper is miles ahead in terms of coding and debugging support. Admittedly, this is partly also because of Resharper. But I do want all the annotations and refactorings and stuff offered by these tools because they speed my work up by a huge amount. I wish that I had access to the same kind of tooling on Linux. Eclipse has fallen behind somewhat. And I don't know any other IDE that comes as close.