It's not exactly true that nobody uses VS. They just don't use it for building windows. I'd say that for debugging and editing source, the majority of windows

It's not exactly true that nobody uses VS. They just don't use it for building windows. I'd say that for debugging and editing source, the majority of windows developers probably have their own ad hoc "workspaces" that define projects for the portions they're interested in, and that's where they do their editing and debugging, but when they actually want to build, they go to a command prompt and use the monster of a custom build system.