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why not visual studio?

• nitrogen 12y ago
  Since this is an article about an open source debugger, it's probably because Visual Studio is not free (except express), Free, or Open Source.
• aninteger 12y ago
  Two reasons: 1. Visual Studio is not free. Yes there is Visual C++ express but for a while it didn't have C99 support because in general it was only a C++ compiler. I believe C99 support was added with VS2013. 2. It's just really nice to use the same compiler on Linux, BSD and Windows. This is possible with GCC and LLVM but not Visual C++. Microsoft tools are not bad (in fact I like SQL server over MySQL or Postgres) but because they aren't cross platform it's very difficult to adopt. them.
  • mrec 12y ago
    Unless they've recently and very quietly changed their policy, the Express versions also don't support plugins.