Yes, Visual Studio 6 was a mind-expanding experience. Nothing else came close until I tried IntelliJ a decade later, and even that is still missing a ton of adv

Yes, Visual Studio 6 was a mind-expanding experience. Nothing else came close until I tried IntelliJ a decade later, and even that is still missing a ton of advanced features. Microsoft gets a lot of hate for being anti-open source, but they really did treat developers very well -- as long as you stayed within their ecosystem.