Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison 543
Nerval's Lobster writes "Developer and editor Jeff Cogswell is back with a comparison of Eclipse and Visual Studio, picking through some common complaints about both platforms and comparing their respective features. 'First, let's talk about usability,' he writes, 'and let's be frank: Neither Eclipse nor Visual Studio is a model for sound usability.' That being said, as an open-source project, Eclipse wins some points for its customizability and compatibility with languages; it's more difficult to modify Visual Studio to meet some programmer needs, which has led to any number of abandoned projects over the years. Microsoft choosing to eliminate macros in recent versions of Visual Studio has also led to some programmer frustrations (and a need for external tools)."
Ec*freeze*lip*freeze*se works (Score:5, Funny)
And I *freeze*refu*freeze*se to h*freeze*ave anyo*freeze*ne tell me di*freeze*fferently. *freeze*.
Re:Um excuse me ... (Score:5, Funny)
Forget text editors. Real developers adjust bits directly in memory using the switches on the operator panel.
Re:Um excuse me ... (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck that shit bitch, butterflies for life.
Re: WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, Microsoft have been working on this aspect to try to slow down VS to compete with Eclipse. VS2012 for instance now has a pause built in where you can't do anything for about 10 seconds when you open up an aspx page, presumably while it parses the file for you...even when you don't want intellisense and just want to copy some code out. It gets really annoying after a while.
Vanilla VS2012 won't let you build an installer for a Windows service either, which you could do with VS2010, so I have to maintain both of them on my dev box, unfortunately.
Re:Um excuse me ... (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, never forget the good old C-x M-c M-butterfly.
captcha: bearded, just on the day I decided to shave. FML
Re:Um excuse me ... (Score:4, Funny)
I don't think the skilled developer is going to be very productive on Visual Studio for Linux.
Re:Out of the box (Score:0, Funny)
Hell no, I cannot even start it it says "Bad ELF", never had that issue with eclipse
Re:Um excuse me ... (Score:2, Funny)
So hurricane Sandy was you?