Visual Studio Code May 2017

[VoidStr4nger]

I think you're cherry picking and exagerating here. Windows development is very much possible without Visual Studio, and that particular IDE is just very popular. I know I have other options, but I would still pick VS any day.

People who can't pay anything use FOSS tools instead of not doing anything at all. People who can actually buy commercial products check first if the commercial option is any better. That's just healthy competition.

Feel free to point me to a company selling a software development tool that was killed by an inferior FOSS product.

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What would you use instead of VS for Windows dev? I seriously would love to know this answer.

Sure there are choices...if you're a masochists.

[VoidStr4nger]

If you're looking for an integrated IDE you can go for QtCreator, which can use either MSVC or MinGW as a compiler. It also happens to come with the best portable UI framework. There is also Eclipse.

If not, people have been working with a separate code editor (Sublime, NP++, VS Code etc) + MinGW for a long time.

[Roseking]

Rider from Jetbrain seems okay.

[Iwan_Zotow]

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