[ilovecaching]

I've worked on a lot of large and complex projects (mostly kernels) using just vim, git, gdb, cscope, and ctags for development for the past 15 years. I think I've encountered maybe one or two quality of life vim bugs in that time, and a few annoying gdb bugs.

Like AI, until someone shows me something that can come up with novel solutions to deeply technical problems, simple tools and intelligence on the part of the programmer is what works.

[moshegramovsky]

You're right of course.

Unfortunately I don't have any choice in the matter of compiler or platforms. I do some work work on Linux and I use GCC there. It feels much more sane.

Visual Studio makes me want to take more blood pressure medication.

[waynesonfire]

This is tier one thinking. Maybe top taking the blood pressure meds and get a little bit more angry and your mindset will change.

Until then, enjoy your MSFT environment that they've created for the lowest common denominator. You try the code-gen / no-code tools yet? Maybe they'll make you happier. Developers, developers, developers!!

[mshockwave]

you still can invoke msbuild manually. If I really need to test on Windows, most of the time it's a CMake project so I just generate build files for VSCode, go back to whatever editor I like and `cmake --build .` to launch the build job.