[beagle3]

Visual c++ 6 circa 1998 was the pinnacle of responsive IDEs, and was more responsive in 2000 on 2000 hardware than the the visual studio 2013 o last used in 2015 - are new versions any better, or so you still wait a couple of seconds when pressing “run” just for the IDE to figure out that no compiling needs to be done?

[mrkeen]

Yes, so much this.

My thoughts on Eclipse the entire time I used it was "why can't this be as fast and reliable as VB6?"

[beagle3]

It is ridiculous.

In 2015, when I had to port something to Windows, I was so frustrated by the IDE speed that I was doing “make ; make test” outside instead - only using the ide when I needed the debugger. (I had makefiles from Linux, I would probably have been to lazy to create them if I didn’t)

[fomine3]

I refuse to use the VB6 IDE that truncates characters from variable viewer.