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> Because Visual Studio regularly, even on the latest 15.7 preview shits the bed with OutOfMemoryExceptions on our large solution, I'm inclined to rage "why don't they just make it 64 bit?

There's technical reasons alone and there's decisions being made based on other factors.

Iirc the product manager for Visual Studio was against blindly moving VS to 64-bit just because it uses a lot of memory. He considered that fixing the symptome and not the cause. He wanted the team instead to spend their time trying to identify inefficiencies and memory leaks.

Now... If you can say that decision has paid off or not is not for me to call, but I do appreciate the reasoning behind the decision.

If they can make it work well with a 32-bit constraint, that's clearly better than yet another app which uses 8GB memory for no reason.