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by gambiting 1181 days ago
I can only do my work on windows. Playstation/Xbox toolchains only work on windows, not to mention most of other video games development tools.

Besides, I honestly think Visual Studio(the full one, not Code) is the best IDE in existence for C++ programming, its tooling and usablity is second to none. Even if I wasn't developing video games I'd stick with windows just to use Visual Studio.

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Yep, I get that lots of software are Windows only. I was super happy with Visual Studio until recently a couple of years, basicly when JS component started to replace those native ones. It took only 80MB of memory when loaded a fairly big solution. But now, a few GB just to load a tiny solution. Lots of functions I don't give a f*k about were added recently, but for those small little things indentation while formatting code etc.. are no longer working as what they used to be. And you just reminded me another bug of Windows 10. So on Friday, I was debugging something and decided to stop as I found what was wrong. Debugging stopped but the process did not and wasn't shown at all in the taskmgr, had to kill it using command line so that I could build the new code. Nothing big but super annoying.