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by BigChiefSmokem 4273 days ago
Completely and profusely disagree.

What Microsoft has built around Visual Studio, on all stacks (desktop, mobile, cloud), is the result of a lot of developer love. Also - Web Essentials, MVC, JavaScript IntelliSense and debugging - all godsend to the modern web developer.

Believe it or not Ballmer wasn't just exhausting wind when he would scream about "Developers! Developers! Developers!"

Xcode has the same problems described by coldcode - that Apple cares very little. Swift was a step in the right direction but just the first step, let's see where it leads us.