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Why?
Because the Visual Studio debugger is the most advanced, wonderful, and beautiful (if that's a thing) debugger ever written.
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Because the Visual Studio debugger is the most advanced, wonderful, and beautiful (if that's a thing) debugger ever written.
Just step back and think for a minute why that is the case.
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Because the Visual Studio debugger is the most advanced, wonderful, and beautiful (if that's a thing) debugger ever written.
Just step back and think for a minute why that is the case.
Why?
Why?
Visual C++'s intellisense actually worked...not perfectly, but much better than what I've seen on Linux (QtCreator is close). Their debugger quality, source control integration, profiler integration, target code quality, compiler error messages/feedback, a call browser (a feature I still can't find on any other IDE, not the same as grep)...all wonderful. All of that stuff can be leveraged for writing cross platform code, including the Linux kernel. I know it sounds insane to use a Windows-specific IDE, but VC++ is that good of an IDE. Personally I would think it's way more trouble than it's worth, but apparently the OP felt otherwise :)
I don't have many good things to say about Microsoft's products, but for Visual Studio I only have praise. MS has always excelled with compilers, languages, development tools. People mock Steve Ballmer for his "developers, developers, developers!!!" rant, but IMO MS's dev toolchain is a big part of how they attracted developers and achieved market domination.
Why?
Because the Visual Studio debugger is the most advanced, wonderful, and beautiful (if that's a thing) debugger ever written.
No, just no! Stop this madness!
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Just step back and think for a minute why that is the case.
If you're implying that it's because code written on/for Windows is more buggy, remove that chip from your shoulder.
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Because the Visual Studio debugger is the most advanced, wonderful, and beautiful (if that's a thing) debugger ever written.
I keep my code portable to Windows soley for the purpose of getting to use the Visual Studio debugger. Likewise, Windows developers should write portable code so they can use valgrind.