[fivea]

> I don’t see how anyone can have this opinion. If you are producing code for which VS was designed (.net for example) it is obviously and definitely one of the greatest IDEs ever produced.

Hard disagree. VS makes code harder to navigate than any other popular IDE out there to the point where even vscode is more intuitive and capable, it's extremely slow at that too, and makes even the tiniest change to a build config something that requires jumping through a myriad arcane menus.

Having used other IDEs to develop Java, C# and C++ code, the only explanation I can find to explain Visual Studio's adoption, besides privileged access to Microsoft's emergent technologies and frameworks, is the boiling frogs analogy.

> If you are having to fight with VS, then you may not be using it for one of its main use cases.

I guess that writing software and building projects are not Visual Studio's main use cases, then.