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Didn't they make a huge deal about explaining why 64 bit was a bad idea? > With a 64-bit Visual Studio on Windows, you can open, edit, run, and debug even the
by cptskippy 6y ago
Didn't they make a huge deal about explaining why 64 bit was a bad idea?
> With a 64-bit Visual Studio on Windows, you can open, edit, run, and debug even the biggest and most complex solutions without running out of memory.
> I find it really satisfying to watch this video of Visual Studio scaling up to use the additional memory that’s available to a 64-bit process as it opens a solution with 1,600 projects and ~300k files.
I guess the popularity of Node.js finally broke them.
- codespin 6y agoThe architect who was responsible for that has a recent blog post on it: https://ricomariani.medium.com/visual-studio-why-is-there-no-64-bit-version-yet-849abcf0e5ec https://ricomariani.medium.com/visual-studio-why-is-there-no...
- mrec 6y agoN.B. recently reposted, but originally written in 2009.
- tanseydavid 6y ago>> Didn't they make a huge deal about explaining why 64 bit was a bad idea? Yes, they did. I remember very well multiple MS employees who were present at a conference I attended, explaining the counter-intuitive 'notion' that VS would be worse off in 64-bit. At the time it seemed it ridiculous to me.
- dariusj18 6y agoSeems to me the declared bad idea was for time/budget concerns, and only minorly because of technical concerns.