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by jasonkester 4419 days ago
Well presented. I clicked the link and spent my loading-spinner time thinking thoughts along the lines of "This is silly. Why would anybody build a C# IDE to compete with VS.NET + ReSharper? Surely nobody would ever use anything but that??? I can't believe that anybody would be cheap enough to..."

... and then I arrived at a page that spent ten seconds clearly explaining exactly why I would want to use this thing even though I have VS.NET already installed on my machine.

A lot of open source & developer-facing small product sites in the world would be well served to read the contents of this page and study exactly what the author did there.

Well done!

2 comments

The title would have been better if it said C# REPL. Then you wouldn't have experienced that confusion.
To be fair, the SharpDevelop people did just that and it's actually quite good. Of course it doesn't measure up to VS.Net but if VS.Net didn't exist it would be really impressive.