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I imagine that's generally a case of most C# devs just using full fat VS so the people who'd add the support to VSCode don't actually use it

capableweb 5y ago
Generally yeah, but as mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28969338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28969338 Microsoft also actively refrain from adding features to the dotnet sdk in order to have less people to use them, VSCode included, in order to stuff the same features into VS.
formerly_proven 5y ago
I'm honestly a bit surprised that people are still using Visual Studio (sans Code) these days. It was a decent IDE ten years ago, but nowadays I'd put it far down the list (not least because it means that you have to develop primarily on Windows which is... uhm... yeah, no thanks). Is the VS experience much better when you are using C# instead of C++?
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
  Pretty much all dotnet developers that I know (of) use VS. I am one of the few holdouts (Rider is miles ahead IMHO and is actually cross-platform).
  - breakfastduck 5y ago
    That's the killer. Why would any serious C# developer use VSC over VS? The developers build the 'support'... But why would they give a shit about the VSC experience when none of them use it? It's a shame.
- capableweb 5y ago
  If you're writing C# you basically only have Visual Studio and JetBrains Rider to chose between, and seemingly Microsoft is trying to get more people to use Visual Studio so lots of features are being added to Visual Studio instead of the SDK. C# support in Visual Studio Code is abysmal, hence no one uses it even if they use Visual Studio Code for other languages.
  - breakfastduck 5y ago
    It has to be said that VSC is the best supported IDE for a lot of languages. Irregardless of how anyone feels about using JS/TS on the server side it's really, really widespread - and VSC is the IDE of choice. It is one of the few privileged pieces of software that is used daily. Not just for me, either...
- GordonS 5y ago
  I much prefer Rider myself (which is cross-platform), but Visual Studio is still a great IDE for C#, C and C++.

capableweb 5y ago

Generally yeah, but as mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28969338 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28969338 Microsoft also actively refrain from adding features to the dotnet sdk in order to have less people to use them, VSCode included, in order to stuff the same features into VS.

formerly_proven 5y ago

I'm honestly a bit surprised that people are still using Visual Studio (sans Code) these days. It was a decent IDE ten years ago, but nowadays I'd put it far down the list (not least because it means that you have to develop primarily on Windows which is... uhm... yeah, no thanks). Is the VS experience much better when you are using C# instead of C++?

5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
Pretty much all dotnet developers that I know (of) use VS. I am one of the few holdouts (Rider is miles ahead IMHO and is actually cross-platform).
- breakfastduck 5y ago
  That's the killer. Why would any serious C# developer use VSC over VS? The developers build the 'support'... But why would they give a shit about the VSC experience when none of them use it? It's a shame.
capableweb 5y ago
If you're writing C# you basically only have Visual Studio and JetBrains Rider to chose between, and seemingly Microsoft is trying to get more people to use Visual Studio so lots of features are being added to Visual Studio instead of the SDK. C# support in Visual Studio Code is abysmal, hence no one uses it even if they use Visual Studio Code for other languages.
- breakfastduck 5y ago
  It has to be said that VSC is the best supported IDE for a lot of languages. Irregardless of how anyone feels about using JS/TS on the server side it's really, really widespread - and VSC is the IDE of choice. It is one of the few privileged pieces of software that is used daily. Not just for me, either...
GordonS 5y ago
I much prefer Rider myself (which is cross-platform), but Visual Studio is still a great IDE for C#, C and C++.