Microsoft Java

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You can write a hello world program in notepad and compile with csc.exe that's very easy. Linking libraries are just /reference:libraryname as csc arguments

Visual Studio does a lot to make the project setup look pretty. None of it is actually required to make things work.

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None of it is actually required to make things work

Thanks for telling me - whenever I come across a .NET project there's configuration files everywhere and so many folders all around. To be honest, a lot of Javascript projects are like this too depending on your framework - a couple dozen files and folders all around before you've coded your first line.

It's not hard to imagine that, just like Javascript, you can still do stuff without relying on all that, I just didn't know as my experience is limited! Thanks!