>> Also visual studio has a free edition these days. >Unfortunately running Windows takes away many nice things for developers. This. Having essentially one c

>> Also visual studio has a free edition these days. >Unfortunately running Windows takes away many nice things for developers. This. Having essentially one choice in monolithic IDE which doesn't really provide anything novel you can't get elsewhere, without a nicely integrated POSIX shell and all the useful stuff that comes with it is a net lose IMO.