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Yes. Every time I look at a default Visual Studio setup, I get mental fatigue just from trying to figure out all the buttons, toolbars, and options that I'll ne
by archagon 12y ago
Yes. Every time I look at a default Visual Studio setup, I get mental fatigue just from trying to figure out all the buttons, toolbars, and options that I'll never ever need to use. It's completely gross and bloated — the Microsoft Word of IDEs.
Xcode, on the other hand, is so nice and Appley and clean. It's a shame it runs so slow and crashes at the slightest breeze. Still, I'd rather use an Xcode that I have to force quit every 30 minutes than a stable Visual Studio any day.
- koyote 12y agoYou do know that you can move/remove and customise all of those buttons and toolsbars and options and whatnot? I have never seen that as an excuse. I only have half a line of buttons under the main toolbar. The number of windows I have docked varies from 1-2 while programming to about 5-6 while debugging (with the watch list, call stack etc. all easily viewable). I would reckon that most programmers spend at least some amount of time customising their development environment; I mean it's what you spend most of your day using. What is important is what features and development-helpers your IDE supports (you don't have to use all features) and how configurable the environment is (while not being overly slow and buggy), in my opinion.
- archagon 12y agoMy excuse is that I'm getting older and I just don't want to deal with the fiddling anymore. It gives me nothing but stress. All my IDEs and text editors have the default config (modulo a few settings), and I'm OK with that. I don't use emacs or vim.