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>Active Directory, SQL Server, Azure, C# and Visual Studio are all amazing What else have you tried? IMO, it is very hard to find anyone that worked on the MS

• stinos 13y ago
  It's not that hard. For me at least, since as a Visual Studio user I'm definitely a fit answer for your question. For C++ for example I tried XCode, KDevelop, NetBeans, Eclipse just to name some. None of those are bad, some are even good, and at some points maybe even better than VS, but none offers the complete integrated development environment VS gives me. And if I'd had to guess: I'm not alone.
  • nahname 13y ago
    The original list pertained to picking for a company, rather than the unsurprising discovery that a paid IDE is better than free alternatives. For example, how would you compare SQL Server install to Postgres? Did your team have an easy time integrating with AD? Was the team more productive in C# than Ruby?
  • free652 13y ago
    Out of the box VS 2013 (C# development) sucks comparing to Eclipse (Java development). You need to buy a bunch of plugins for VS, like ReSharper. I don't know much about C++ though.
    • hravnx 13y ago
      Out-of-the-box VS 2013 (and C# development) is so far ahead of Eclipse (and Java development) that it isn't even the same sport. The myth that Eclipse users try to perpetuate that "you must buy Resharper just to be able to work in VS" is just that: a myth. My team has worked on both C# and Java backends for AAA-games and after we moved to C# we have had people actively threatening to resign if we ever went back to Eclipse (and Java). The debugging capabilities, the speed of the tools, the relative sanity of C# compared to Java ... there is simply no comparison.