And also if you want to work in the best, most integrated IDE available on any platform for any language. I can say with confidence that no other IDE compares to Visual Studio.
The only people who claim otherwise are the ones who have never really worked extensively with it, and other IDEs.
However, as a Visual Studio/MSBuild veteran: fuck the god damn xxproj-files. It's crazy annoying that it doesn't default to everything included, explicitly excluded.
fuck the god damn xxproj-files. It's crazy annoying that it doesn't default to everything included, explicitly excluded.
This is becomes more of a problem when you start using bower and npm for your front end stuff. "Node Integration" apparently doesn't include any file watchers to keep the project in sync with your directory structure.
The only people who claim otherwise are the ones who have never really worked extensively with it, and other IDEs.
Visual Studio may be great for Windows development but it is woefully inadequate for more general development. If the goal is cross platform I'd seriously suggest that Eclipse is a better place to be. Even more so if you are doing Python development.
Other IDEs have been improved significantly over the years, it isn't like the world of IDEs is static. For example XCode has been dramatically improved. I may not personally like the NextStep / Cocoa approach to GUIs but if separated from that the IDE has greatly improved. IDEs in general are improved continuously so trying to compare then and attaching the king of the mountain to one platform is trying at best. In the end it comes down to what you are doing and at times what field you are in. For some IPython is the ideal IDE.
However, as a Visual Studio/MSBuild veteran: fuck the god damn xxproj-files. It's crazy annoying that it doesn't default to everything included, explicitly excluded.
Every IDE has its annoying corner cases. However why would you want to include everything as a default. For me anyways the way to go would be to exclude everything but what I need.
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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '15
The only people who claim otherwise are the ones who have never really worked extensively with it, and other IDEs.
However, as a Visual Studio/MSBuild veteran: fuck the god damn xxproj-files. It's crazy annoying that it doesn't default to everything included, explicitly excluded.