Which means, you probably never really needed C++. No doubt, Visual Studio shines and is probably unbeatable as an IDE. No doubt, .NET will become more and mor

Which means, you probably never really needed C++. No doubt, Visual Studio shines and is probably unbeatable as an IDE. No doubt, .NET will become more and more solid as they are trying to catch up with Java VM in performance and robustness. But unfortunately C#, the language itself, is restrictive and is trying to protect the programmer from him/herself, same way as Java and Python.