So here's the thing. I keep hearing this over an over. And I recently started a job where Visual Studio is is the IDE of choice working on C# code.
So of course I thought. I'll give VS a try. I don't know a whole lot of C# yet so it'll be nice to have a tool helping me get to know the language and stdlib. It only took me half a day to discover that VS which is arguably one of the best IDE's out there beating out Eclipse and IntilliJ for useability and responsiveness still suffers from the same problem all IDE's suffer from.
Poor isolation. I like to build my code and run tests frequently. VS locks the whole UI when I do that. Building and running tests should be a background task.
Say what you want about those of us who prefer our "simple" text editors with our simple tools. But those editors and tools are composable in ways that get out of the way and still gives us that lauded ability to deploy and debug code on the fly you mention.
After my experience I immediately abandoned VS and set up OmniSharp with emacs. Now I get code completion, error reporting, and even style issues highlighted in my editor without interrupting my state of flow.
I’m with you on this one. I’m having to use VS for a current build and it forces you down a one-way-or-the-highway approach. Sure, you can find extensions that alter how it works a bit, but I don’t have the time to learn how to write a VS extension. I’d much prefer the flexibility of a bunch of small tools, each of which works well in isolation. I find VS extremely heavy in resource utilisation.
I expect I’d be much happier if I could swap out the code editor for Sublime as a minimum, but as I’m writing a bunch of LESS code I keep on having to jump back into VS anyway to trigger a recompile.
Amen. IDEs tend to be far too heavy for me, and simple text editors are my preference because of that.
That said, Geany is worth mentioning. Not very fancy or feature-rich, but it gets the job done without feeling like I'm teaching a sumo wrestler to ride a skateboard.
So of course I thought. I'll give VS a try. I don't know a whole lot of C# yet so it'll be nice to have a tool helping me get to know the language and stdlib. It only took me half a day to discover that VS which is arguably one of the best IDE's out there beating out Eclipse and IntilliJ for useability and responsiveness still suffers from the same problem all IDE's suffer from.
Poor isolation. I like to build my code and run tests frequently. VS locks the whole UI when I do that. Building and running tests should be a background task.
Say what you want about those of us who prefer our "simple" text editors with our simple tools. But those editors and tools are composable in ways that get out of the way and still gives us that lauded ability to deploy and debug code on the fly you mention.
After my experience I immediately abandoned VS and set up OmniSharp with emacs. Now I get code completion, error reporting, and even style issues highlighted in my editor without interrupting my state of flow.
I'm still waiting for the IDE that can do that.