Oliveira's "new features in Visual Studio" are all programming languages it now supports-- in other words, the development environment is synonymous with the co

Oliveira's "new features in Visual Studio" are all programming languages it now supports-- in other words, the development environment is synonymous with the compilers bundled with it. When I left Windows as a development platform (maybe 10 years ago), it took a while to appreciate how deep the Unix philosophy of "compact, orthogonal tools" really runs. Now, though, it would never occur to me to describe a new compiler as a "feature" of the other tools I use. I'm not sure that the difference in worldview really matters. I doubt that I'm significantly more productive now than I was with Visual Studio. However, I do feel incredibly straightjacketed whenever I have to go back to VS, as if that monolithic view of software is imposing itself on me, rather than letting me do what I want as I want.