[solarkraft]

I like .Net and C#, but I've had a lot of experiences that were not good.

I personally hated working with Visual Studio 2017. 2019 was an improvement, but one so small it was still awful. I recently used it again (2021?) and was cynically surprised that they FINALLY got scrolling that isn't forcibly line-based. Why did they even bother now?

This and some other small things that used to make the experience painful are now solved, but they still haven't really gotten on top of the freezes and crashes.

Visual Studio being bad is one thing, it being the only officially supported IDE is the other. They should not only officially support third party efforts like Jetbrains Rider, in the past I've gone as far as saying they should discontinue Visual Studio in favor of it.

Now for the nice part: Almost all "new .NET" announcements/tutorials focus on VS Code, an IDE that sucks a whole lot less.

On another note: Transforming a 20 line T4 template took 4-5x as long as the actual compilation on the last .Net project I've seen.

[the_cramer]

Weird how experiences differ. I found VS to be one of the best IDEs I've ever used. Of course in conjunction with C#.

Yeah it's big and takes some big chunk of resources, but that has never been a problem in my daily work.