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> Visual Studio (not Code) is a massively superior development and debugging tool to anything that the Unix crowd have cooked up (gdb? perf? Tell me when you ca
by jen20 2y ago
> Visual Studio (not Code) is a massively superior development and debugging tool to anything that the Unix crowd have cooked up (gdb? perf? Tell me when you can get flame graphs in one click).
Hard disagree on the development aspect of VS, which (last time I used it, in 2015) couldn't even keep up with my fairly slow typing speed.
The debugging tools are excellent, but they are certainly not any more excellent than those in Instruments on macOS (which is largely backed by DTrace).
- pathartl 2y agoVS2022 is actually pretty damn slick. I use it on the daily and it's much more stable than any previous version. It's still not as fast as a text editor (I _do_ miss Sublime's efficiency), but even going back to 2019 is extremely hard.
- Timwi 2y ago2015 is 9 years ago. We shouldn't keep comparing Windows/Microsoft software from that long ago with modern alternatives on Linux and Mac. That said, I agree that Visual Studio was extremely slow and clunky in the first half of the 2010s.
- jen20 2y agoI didn’t compare it with a modern alternative. I compared its debugging tools of Instruments of the same vintage, and pointed it out that last time I tried VS it couldn’t keep up with basic typing.
- Dalewyn 2y agoNT 10.0 hails from 2015 (Windows 10) and was re-released in 2021 (Windows 11).