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by roel_v 3392 days ago
Sure, but it does so much more than VC6 used to do. I mean, the intellisense is so good nowadays, the continuous compiling that essentially gives you on the fly 'compiler errors', ...

I agree that it would probably be nice if those could be turned off, and the UI is sluggish, but VC6 was (apart from being fast) not much to write home about (compared to what we have now).
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BinaryIdiot 3392 days ago
To be fair though parent was referring to VC6's start-up time compared to the current version's start-up time. Is it fair to expect continuous compilation or maybe even intenseness to slow down start-up? I'm not so sure.
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orcy 3392 days ago
We still build some stuff with VS2005 and it feels very fast and responsive while having everything I usually need in ide. The only thing it missing is modern C++ compiler.
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