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Microsoft Launches Visual Studio 2019 For Windows and Mac (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the developer-tools dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today announced that Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac has hit general availability — you can download it now from visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads. Visual Studio 2019 includes AI-assisted code completion with Visual Studio IntelliCode. Separately, real-time collaboration tool Visual Studio Live Share has also hit general availability, and is now included with Visual Studio 2019.

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  1. Noooo! by TechyImmigrant · · Score: 1, Insightful

    On windows I have to install a nightmare package of huge blobs of software to compile a C program, and then I find it doesn't even have getopt and the resulting executable is buried 6 levels down in an undocumented build directory.

    On a macintosh or a linux machine, I can type gcc my_program.c -o my_program and I'm done.

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    1. Re:Noooo! by slack_justyb · · Score: 5, Insightful

      On a macintosh or a linux machine, I can type gcc my_program.c -o my_program and I'm done

      I myself being a person who favors Unix can definitely attest to how much I like how easy simple things can be done on these systems. That said, if compiling a single C file is what you're attempting to do, Visual Studio is absolutely not the correct tool for you. Microsoft's Visual Studio is a tool that is refined to develop Microsoft style development on Microsoft stacks. It works okay for other styles and stack, but this IDE is finely crafted, honed, and a juggernaut in sheer power for development in Microsoft land. If Microsoft isn't your bread and butter, yeah, you'll find better tools out there by the dozens. But if your shop is eyebrows deep in Mircosoft, there's few things that compare to this IDE.

      Get the right tool for what you need always. VS is tool that shines best for a select number of use cases that all in one way or another favor Microsoft's thinking for development and their stack of development/deployment. Don't fool yourself into thinking that there is any one single tool that rules them all and does everything the absolutely best way possible.

  2. No Microsoft IDE will ever be as usable as VB6 by ASCIIxTended · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I know there are a lot of haters here, most of whom I'm sure have never used it, but I believe that that the last really usable IDE from Microsoft that allowed for true rapid application development for desktop apps was Visual Basic 6.

    Sure it didn't force you to do certain things, like declare variables, but that doesn't mean you can't declare them properly. Show me another language that lets you create a multi-dimensional array of database objects, or do true debugging of both the user screens and code from one place. Microsoft made a big mistake abandoning it - an no vb.net is not a replacement. If you think it is then you haven't used either.

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  3. Glad I don't have to deal with this MS crapware... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    So happy that I don't have to deal with this Microsoft garbage anymore. Now a days, I use Linux with Qt and can deploy my apps literally everywhere. Tablets, phones, Windows, Mac, Linux, it doesn't matter, my same code works everywhere.

  4. Thanks for the MS plug by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    I hope you guys are, at least, getting kickbacks from MS for such blatant propaganda.