> MS has always been solid with developer tools, documentation, and dev relations.
in my 25 years of using their tooling and reading their documentation, they've never been more than what just qualifies as borderline acceptable
I booted up VS2019 today for the first time in a while (after waiting 90 minutes for it to install) and it still feels like using a Jetbrains IDE from 15 years ago, and it's still worse than what Borland produced in the 90s
... and it's even slower than IntelliJ IDEA, which just seems amazing as IDEA is written in Java
I find Visual Studio intolerably slow, I don't quite understand why but it's been bad since at least Visual Studio 2017. Rider and IntelliJ are both much faster and I prefer them.
The documentation is excellent in my experience though. I love it. Visual Studio is really the only Microsoft developer tool I don't like. Even Visual Studio Code is much better.
Agree. going through .Net ans ASP.Net documentation and none of the classes/methods have usage examples except for the super obvious ones (like the "String" class). They just show method signatures and that's it.
It as if the tools were built "by IDE users", "for IDE users".
They may have stagnated but MSDN was, for many, many years, some of the best documentation I had seen anywhere. (Java was pretty solid too, and also PHP).
But maybe I didn't stray too far off the beaten path?
in my 25 years of using their tooling and reading their documentation, they've never been more than what just qualifies as borderline acceptable
I booted up VS2019 today for the first time in a while (after waiting 90 minutes for it to install) and it still feels like using a Jetbrains IDE from 15 years ago, and it's still worse than what Borland produced in the 90s
... and it's even slower than IntelliJ IDEA, which just seems amazing as IDEA is written in Java