[bagosm]

Its not only that. For me, Visual Studio, the best single piece of software ever made, should be made available too - which unfortunately probably ain't gonna happen. It just saves so much time and makes the process such a breeze, that it was what converted me to windows to begin with...

[JPKab]

Visual Studio is the greatest set of training wheels ever made. Beautiful, shiny training wheels that let you coast along and drink and eat without worrying about falling over. The people using the training wheels just don't understand why the big kids flying by on only two wheels would ever do such a thing. It's so much harder! I don't want to make my life harder. I have code completion and fantastic syntax, error detection etc. Why would I give that up and make my life harder? But when you give it up, you soon start to learn to find the errors yourself.... your memory picks up again. Think about how many phone numbers you knew before you stored them all in a cell phone. Think about how many you know now....

Every tool user will think tools more complicated than there's are ridiculous. Visual Studio users will think Sublime Text users are morons who are making their lives harder for no reason. Sublime Text users will think this about Vim users...... but my analogy:

Visual Studio: training wheels Sublime Text: fat tire 5 speed bike Vim/Emacs: 21 speed skinny tire Tour de France bike

[commentzorro]

I'm not sure many people would use Vim/Emacs in real life. I don't know... maybe some people... certainly not pros.

[kayoone]

so what you are saying is that the many brilliant game programmers, including the likes of John Carmack or Tim Sweeny, dont know what they are doing ? Not everyone in IT is writing dead simple CRUD web apps using scripting languages, but those guys seem to have the biggest egos...

[JPKab]

Honestly, what percentage of Visual Studio users are building game engines, vs. using it for building ridiculously overwrought MS apps that achieve the same functionality as a dead simple CRUD app (I'm looking at you Sharepoint)

[josh-j]

Why did you go to all that trouble to make an analogy when you have no evidence to back it up?