This crazy indian guy at the top of Microsoft has done it again: .NET will be open-sourced and running on OS X and Linux too! . NET already was a nice developing tool and now C# will be the go to solution for all our little projects. http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/1...tudio-2015-net-2015-and-visual-studio-online/ If you want to jump right into coding, no need to get some cut down version of Visual Studio anymore, Visual Studio Community is free and apparently the full version of VS, with the ability to use extensions, etc. They are really trying hard to be the nice guys. Should we start trusting them maybe?
I'd say it's the most powerful, and fastest, IDE. I took it for granted until I had to use Eclipse and endure its 5 second hang times for autocomplete when I don't even want to autocomplete sometimes. The text editor puritans and university professors can say what they want, there's nothing like using Visual Studio.
Visual Studio is already free. You can download the Express Edition which is amazingly powerful for how much it costs (nothing).
You are not the only one. It took me 30 secs to write a program that lists the damage reduction of different armor values in LoL. I wouldn't want to waste more time than that to simply start visual studio, even though I have it. For little things, dev-C++ ftw.
Borland, really? I can't fucking stand their compiler. I had to use it in vocational school and the thing is a mess to use. At least Microsoft's compiler and g++ work the same way when it comes to linking.
You can't load test projects I think with Express. There's a few other project types that aren't available in the Express edition too. That always annoyed me, but now I am no longer annoyed! Yay.
