[archagon]

I don't use VS but I use Xcode every day. Downsides: incredibly laggy, buggy, can crash a lot depending on the version. Upsides: actually pretty thoughtful in terms of UI and UX, at least insofar as a fully-fledged IDE can be. I could never wrap my head around VS's stupid toolbars. Debugging, when it works, is really nice; there's more interactivity and inline code interaction than I remember VS having. (VS probably has more power features in this arena, though.) The profiling tools are top-notch; you can even capture frames when debugging an iOS OpenGL app. Fuzzy search is a huge help — is VS still missing this feature? You can very easily access the docs for any property or method with an Alt-click, as well as the headers with a Cmd-click. Adding external code and projects, as well as hooking up all the dependencies, is pretty easy once you've done it a few times. So yeah, not great by any stretch, but pretty good when it works.

[sitharus]

Laggy and buggy? That sounds like Visual Studio to me and I use that 8 hours a day. However, it's a damn good environment for C# and F# development, and Intellisense is pretty awesome in 2015.

In VS, Control-; is a pretty good way to navigate. I turn off all the toolbars anyway.

[tychuz]

>In VS, Control-; is a pretty good way to navigate.

Not for me. ReSharper's "Go to Everything" is so much better.

[moron4hire]

If you're having issues, I would suggest it's something to do with your particular setup. VS is a RAM hog, but if you have enough RAM, it is very stable. Certainly doesn't lock-up or bomb-out-to-desktop as often as Xcode, NetBeans, or Eclipse on me.

[moron4hire]

I run VS with all of the toolbars removed and drive it almost completely from keyboard shortcuts. Occasionally, I use the menu bar, but it's usually only for first-time-project-settings-tweaks.