I think this is awesome. For all the people that are complaining about not being open source and not friendly to hackers, the truth is probably most people that

I think this is awesome. For all the people that are complaining about not being open source and not friendly to hackers, the truth is probably most people that program Raspberry are not even using a native compiled language but are using Python. The people that want to hack on a kernel, can install Linux. I am really excited about the prospect of Microsoft enabling writing and debugging for the Pi using Visual Studio. They already have the feature for android in the Visual Studio 2015 Preview[1] and making it work for Raspberry Pi on running Windows should be easy. With an excellent development environment and debugger, I think interest in C/C++ programming for the Pi will be increased as it will be more accessible. [1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/12/05/developing-native-activity-applications-for-the-android-platform.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2014/12/05/developing...