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by saosebastiao 3701 days ago
> With Microsoft's newfound interest in cross platform development I'm looking forward to the day when I can just develop entirely in Visual Studio.

Agreed, VS is the best IDE out there by far. Still a shame that developing in VS implies developing on Windows.
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mixedCase 3700 days ago
How is it better than any of JetBrain's products?

Fairly limited without ReSharper, which makes it slow; language support is not particularly great; updates have made me lose half a day's producitvity (although that's par for the course for Windows); weird keybinds...

And of course: Windows-only, not open source and not free as in free beer either if you don't meet certain criteria.

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pjmlp 3701 days ago
Some of us are developers and do actually like Windows, but I agree it would nice for it to be cross-platform.

It would be handy on my travel netbook, which is the only GNU/Linux device at home.

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