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by omegavesko 4087 days ago
Yeah, a huge part of why I still (mainly) run Windows at home is easy access to Visual Studio. With third party extensions (e.g. ReSharper), and even without them, it's probably the best single IDE I've ever used.

I still use WebStorm + JS for frontend Web work, though. Would you say it's worth the switch to VS and TypeScript (though WebStorm supports TypeScript, too)?
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miguelrochefort 4087 days ago
Visual Studio with Web Essentials is awesome.

http://www.asp.net/visual-studio/overview/2013/visual-studio...

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bkjelden 4087 days ago
I haven't used WebStorm, but using VS for typescript was way better than using it for javascript.

Developing typescript in VS is about as easy as developing C# in VS. Everything "just works".

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the_rosentotter 4087 days ago
The .Net/Visual Studio ecosystem has been looking increasingly compelling these last few years. But, I am old enough to remember evil Microsoft, so I will almost certainly never go there.
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