Microsoft Continues Porting Visual C++ To Linux (microsoft.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday March 11, 2017 @04:34AM from the languages-for-Linux dept.

Long-time Slashdot reader Billly Gates shared some news from Microsoft's Visual C++ blog: Visual Studio 2017 now lets developers write C++ code for Linux desktops, servers, and other devices without an extension, targeting specific architectures, including ARM: Visual Studio will automatically copy and remotely build your sources and can launch your application with the debugger... Today Visual Studio only supports building remotely on the Linux target machine. It is not limited to specific Linux distros, but we do have dependencies on the presence of some tools. Specifically, we need openssh-server, g++, gdb and gdbserver.

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First by Anonymous Coward · 2017-03-11 04:36 · Score: 0, Troll

Fuck microsoft
need openssh-server, g++, gdb and gdbserver. by JustNiz · 2017-03-11 05:24 · Score: 1, Troll

So basically they're just porting the IDE.
Remind me again why I'd spend money on this instead of just freely using eclipse or netbeans or something?