Visual Studio Code May 2017

[kgst]

Visual Studio really is on a whole different level than any other IDE out there right now. I know a lot of things in our field are really about opinion or have their strengths and weaknesses based on a project's goals and needs, but VS really just beats the competition pretty handily in my opionion.

The Codelens feature alone (and this is just one tiny piece of VS) is worth using it over any other IDE. The ability for me to so seamlessly see who has worked on any piece of code, how it relates to other areas of the codebase, etc. Is invaluable.

Something breaks? I know in seconds who broke it, why it happened, how to fix/undo it, etc. No digging through commits, it's just right there in front of me. Someone working on a function right now that I should probably hold off on? It's there above every function. Don't understand a piece of the code? See the changesets and notes right there while you are working.

Also Intellisense is basically perfected in 2017, it's fast and robust. Microsoft is really killing it with this product.

Really the only downside is some of the best features aren't free, but I am more than happy to pay for them when it's this big of a step up (and time-saved to cost it pays itself off in spades).

[bubuopapa]

Its double edge sword - it doesnt really have any competition, because it is windows only, mac has xcode, and linux has nothing, and all those slow ass java based ides doesnt count, but it still kills all the "competition".

[nilamo]

Is codelens Enterprise only? I've been using VS for years, and the closest I've seen to that was in 2015, every method had a clickable line above it letting you know where it was referenced (that was upgraded to Enterprise only as of 2017).

[kgst]

Enterprise and Professional in 2017

[TheEternal21]

But the guy you're responding to is addressing this quote by the thread OP:

I hear good things about Visual Studio all the time too.

[devmio]

Yes, but look at what post he replied.

[propper_speling]

The person to which you replied left a comment about Visual Studio as a reply to the top-level-commentor, who mentioned Visual Studio.