No. The word "alternative" implies a certain quality and that you can actually switch. Sorry but this isn't the case here. I've used SharpDevelop in the past but there is a world of difference between VS + R# and SharpDevelop.
Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
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Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, SharpDevelop is not the same project as MonoDevelop: http://monodevelop.com/ MonoDevelop was forked from SharpDevelop but they diverged. Unity has MonoDevelop with Unity-specific patches and they are a little behind. Xamarin Studio is also MonoDevelop with proprietary stuff. Speaking of the "linux version", linux distributions are very far behind in the package versions provided and the folks at Xamarin are…
Weird, so the best place to develop with Mono is actually on Windows????? What's the point of making it cross platform then?
Don't need no stinkin IDE, just a text editor and a compiler. You'll learn more than when using an IDE.
Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
#23At least for C++ native development, a development tool comparison with Visual Studio is just misplaced. Alex Ionescu, a ReactOS NT kernel developer, in one question at a Montreal conference last year was asked about the operating system's attained level of compatibility for applications in general and about Visual Studio in particular. His answer was that Visual Studio will be the last piece, as it so intricately fused into the OS internals. It would be insane to pretend to be able to compete (in every aspect) against something like Visual Studio which can use undocumented resources not available to anyone but to Microsoft's own toy!
Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
#24Out of interest, how does this compare with the free editions of Visual Studio? Is there any compelling reason to use it over them? I am genuinely interested; I don't do much (any?) C# at the moment.
I recently used it on a 2010-era netbook that couldn't handle the full VS2013 Express edition and it worked great. Not as many bells and whistles, but easy to use and quick to get up and coding.
Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
#25This is nice, but no... it will never replace VS. I'm sorry if I sound arrogant, but if anyone disagrees than they either never used VS or don't know its potential. I'm no MS fanboy, but VS is simply the best IDE.
Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
#26This is nice, but no... it will never replace VS. I'm sorry if I sound arrogant, but if anyone disagrees than they either never used VS or don't know its potential. I'm no MS fanboy, but VS is simply the best IDE.
No, it isn't. It's the best IDE for C# on a windows OS. Important to have those qualifiers.
Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
#27This is nice, but no... it will never replace VS. I'm sorry if I sound arrogant, but if anyone disagrees than they either never used VS or don't know its potential. I'm no MS fanboy, but VS is simply the best IDE.
Usually calling something the best is entirely subjective, but I believe due to the closed ecosystem surrounding Visual Studio, competitors don't stand a chance regardless of how bloated and cumbersome it is.
It's also interesting how analogous that situation is to many others concerning walled gardens in computing.
Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
#28This is nice, but no... it will never replace VS. I'm sorry if I sound arrogant, but if anyone disagrees than they either never used VS or don't know its potential. I'm no MS fanboy, but VS is simply the best IDE.
Yeah, I agree. VS is still better, which is why I said in the article I wont use sharpdevelop in my professional work, but for someone who doesn't want too or can't afford to buy into VS then sharpdevelop is a much better option than VS Express imho.
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#29It looks interesting - and I will certainly give it a go the next time visual studio's WPF designer is running at a snails pace, but it doesn't really seem like there is much to differentiate it - it mostly looks like a feature-by-feature clone of visual studio.
Re: Sharp Develop – Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio
#30No. The word "alternative" implies a certain quality and that you can actually switch. Sorry but this isn't the case here. I've used SharpDevelop in the past but there is a world of difference between VS + R# and SharpDevelop.
I am with you, but I think that Roslyn has a really good change to change that. Sometimes I wonder how Roslyn will affect JetBrains' business. It should be pretty easy to re-produce quite a lot of core ReSharper features.