"He uses Visual Studio which is certainly one of the best IDEs" Depends on what you're doing. .NET? Of course. Java, Python, C++, Ruby, etc? Not really. "If y

"He uses Visual Studio which is certainly one of the best IDEs" Depends on what you're doing. .NET? Of course. Java, Python, C++, Ruby, etc? Not really. "If you are building ASP.NET MVC applications, you really don't have a better choice than Windows" That's like saying if I'm building iOS apps, I don't really have a better choice than OS X. Yes, it's technically possible to do both on other platforms, but in reality, it doesn't happen that often.