Visual Studio 2026 Released 45
Dave Knott writes: Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2026, the first major version of their flagship compiler in almost four years. Release notes are available here. The compiler has also been updated, including improved (but not yet 100%) C++23 core language and standard library implementations.
Meanwhile slashdot has released popup ads (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyone else noticed these? I thought popup ads had disappeared years ago because they are so annoying, but apparently not. Although I'd rather have these ads than those pernicious and malicious html-load.com scripts running on this site.
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Want to try out the new Visual Studio 2026, but worried its full of AI crap. Still rocking VS 2019.
Re:Meanwhile slashdot has released popup ads (Score:5, Informative)
VS26 is surprisingly good. There is a ton of AI crap in it, but you can completely turn it all off. VS26 runs noticeably better on my machine than VS22 did, I've been using the preview version for a while now without issue in my day job. Like I mentioned though, we're migrating away from Windows altogether now that .Net runs well in Linux and there are good cross-platform IDEs available.
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I'm always surprised that VS is the best IDE. You would think that there would be a really great open source one, given that every open source developer needs something to edit code and manage projects... But nope, the only half way decent open source IDE is Visual Studio Code, another Microsoft product.
I have to use Eclipse based IDEs for various things, and they are all painful and buggy. The UI is a complete mess. It's a little bit mind boggling how bad it is.
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However, in the real world most people use dynamic languages like Python, which loses all that IDE magic (AI can kind of help here). btw IntelliJ has been more popular than Eclipse among Java programmers for more than a decade now.
The conclusion is that most programmers don't care about progra
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I do 99% of my coding in C these days. I used to do some C# stuff, but it's been a while.
So for me a decent IDE is very very helpful.
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For embedded, efficiency is important. Plus familiarity, especially with GCC. For ARM stuff they only tend to provide libraries in C too, for 8 bit stuff I usually write my own so I suppose it could be Rust...
Just not really seeing any benefit at the moment.
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Eventually you get sick of IDEs and just use vim. When I was young, I liked IDEs, I no longer think theyâ(TM)re worth the trouble.
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I just 3 days ago dieced t my entire code base to 2022.
I f you have a lecacy code base 2019 is all you will ever need. I am new stuff on top of my codease and i need core 9 rest api. of 2019 support about core 6 nevr leave.
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Absolutely agree. Our executives required us to "upgrade" to 2022. It's got AI (another of the executive teams requirements) to help you along dontchaknow! Helps you code faster! Stupid shit's constantly in the way and suggesting things that make little sense. I'm so glad I'm retiring next year.
Re:Meanwhile slashdot has released popup ads (Score:4, Informative)
Slashdot has progressively got shitter over the past decade, and its noticable that that also correlates to a decline in the number of comments being left on stories.... The community has shrunk.
Slashdot used to allow me to give them money to avoid ads, but they took that away - so I have no moral or ethical issue with blocking ads on this site. Especially as they also used to provide an option to hide ads for long term users - which they started to ignore for specific ads, and then got rid of entirely.
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The Dice era did so much damage, but to be fair the new owner fixed a lot of things and the place got a lot better. Of course many people didn't come back.
This ad is annoying though because it covers the content. I'd rather it was part of the page layout, than floating over it.
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But now that they've made it "e-mail us to create an account" and require you to log in to comment, it's stagnating (like it wasn't already). I get that spam and trolls were a problem but now it's just turning into the same few people saying the same things over and over again.
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The community has shrunk.
Is that a surprise? If you don't know what I'm talking about open a private browsing window and go hit the Sign-Up button and see what happens.
We've been a closed club for years.
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Wow, wasnt aware of that!
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Yeah, for once the complaining about the decline of Slashdot isn't just a bunch of old man shouting at clouds. It's actually by design. The site is dying.
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It will live on on the various worlds of Alastair Reynolds books...
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Ok, so it's not just me. I finally got rid it by flagging the crap with uBlock. Every once in a while a little black box still appears in the lower right hand corner though. This is the first pop-up I have seen in well over 15 years now, maybe longer.
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Anyone else noticed these?
https://github.com/dhowe/AdNau... [github.com]
No More
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ad and geo blockin in the firewall, no scrip an ublok orgin. in my brosower i have not see and ad in years on most any thing not even tube
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Apparently you can create an AI to get rid of these popups. I've heard this tool MongoDB may be useful for this.
Visual Studio is a great IDE, but... (Score:3)
Not a fan of Microsoft, but Visual Studio has made a ton of improvements over the past few years, including this release.
Unfortunately they've fucked Windows so badly recently, and JetBrains has made their IDE free for non-commercial use (And far cheaper for commercial licenses than MSDN) that myself and a ton of other .Net devs are moving off of Windows completely and won't be getting to use this new version.
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* For a Microsoft product.
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It's different now though. The alternating good/bad Windows releases used to be the core of the system was good or bad. Windows 11 is pretty good though. What's made it bad is shitty choices that Microsoft is making trying to squeeze money out of users. Ideas like their Recall AI crap they keep rolling out. Overwriting system settings with every update. Why do I have ads on my "Professional" edition for xbox crap? Why in the ever loving fuck does the built-in solitaire game now require a recurring subscription if I don't want to watch ads between games? I don't want to use OneDrive or Edge, stop prompting me about them.
And yeah, there's plenty of easy workarounds to almost all of these issues, but the point is that they keep making these decisions and pushing them on users. The Windows system itself isn't horrible these days, it's the management decisions that are killing it. A new version of Windows won't fix that.
One of the old school Windows developers posted a pretty good video on this the other day. He makes some good points, and honestly if they followed his ideas, Windows would be much better for developers and power users. But I don't see them doing that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Windows 11 is pretty good though. What's made it bad is shitty choices
So it's good.... except for the bad shit.
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"Windows 12 will be decent" - Nope. The greed train has left the station. MS got a taste of monetizing their user base. Shit's here to stay now.
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Yeah I used to have the MSDN subscription where you'd get binders full of CDs every quarter.
Visual Studio Community is free though for non-commercial use, and commercial use as long as you're under a certain annual revenue (Something like $1.5 million I think?). I'm sure the volume licensing that most shops use is far less than $500/month.
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I have used Jetbrains Rider now for the past 7 years and I can definitely recommend it (and I pay for it as well). I switched because I moved to Mac for .Net development, and really hated Microsofts .Net story for VSCode - and since switching to Rider, I haven't found myself wanting Visual Studio at all.
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Curious what Mac you're using? I'm getting a new personal laptop somewhat soon, and the M5 chips look really nice. How much RAM do you have? I've currently got an M1 mini with 8GB of RAM that works pretty well but it tends to start bogging down when using containers and having a bunch of youtube tabs open. I'm not sure how much of the Apple Tax on memory I need/want to spend.
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Get as much memory as you can. I think memory is more important than the processor.
Did the processing recently. For only $7000 or so, you can max out the best laptop with 128GB of RAM and 8TB of storage. That's the way to fly!!
For us non-big-spenders, you can get something decent for under $3000.
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Get as much memory as you can. I think memory is more important than the processor.
Memory is absolutely more important. Upgrade the RAM at build-to-order time and the Mac will run well for 7 or 8 years until they stop upgrading macOS on that model.
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I'm probably going to go for the 48GB/1TB as far as storage.
I tend to try and buy a laptop that I'll use for several years, this seems like my best bet right now. It will be replacing a 9 year old Dell Precision laptop that I've been using daily since it was new.
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I'm probably going to go for the 48GB/1TB as far as storage.
I tend to try and buy a laptop that I'll use for several years, this seems like my best bet right now. It will be replacing a 9 year old Dell Precision laptop that I've been using daily since it was new.
24GB or 32GB will be just great for the 7-8 lifetime of the Mac.
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Over the years I have used as my main development machine:
* 2011 17" Macbook Pro with 8GB RAM
* 2016 iMac with 8 cores and 32GB RAM (with 2 additional 4K screens)
* M3 Max 14" Macbook Pro with 36GB RAM (and an additional 4K screen)
* M4 Max 16" Macbook Pro with 48GB RAM (and an Apple Studio screen)
I havent really ever run into a resource issue - I had to retire the iMac just last month because the screen was ghosting, but it was still perfectly usable for development purposes right up to that point (ie I never
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VS For Mac was nothing more than a rebrand of Xamarin MonoDevelop, a third party IDE - it never had anything in common with actual VS.
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I'm running the insider version. No threadripper here (I wish).
OpenMP (Score:3, Informative)
They still only support very old version of OpenMP.
For HPC use, VS (or Windows for that matter) is a major nuisance.
Fortunately, we're finally moving to Linux on the server at my work. Good riddance!