Just launched VS, every now and then I give it a try.
It takes
minutes to open and load a hello world proggie. In contrast, loading the 32k lines of MasmBasic, or the 19k of RichMasm costs under one second.
Building a hello world proggie takes ages, too (RichMasm: <1 second).
It rarely succeeds in building a hello world proggie. Usually, you get lousy cryptic errors like
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State
Error MSB8020 The build tools for v141 (Platform Toolset = 'v141') cannot be found. To build using the v141 build tools, please install v141 build tools. Alternatively, you may upgrade to the current Visual Studio tools by selecting the Project menu or right-click the solution, and then selecting "Retarget solution". GRNMASM C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.targets 57 When you select e.g. SendMessage and press Ctrl F1 for help, VS does ... nothing. If you are lucky, you may notice that a new browser window opened,
in the background. It greets you with "Welcome to Visual Studio 2015", but it won't tell you anything about SendMessage.
If you select SendMessage and hit F1 (without Ctrl, we are trying to be courageous), another new browser window opens, again in the background. If you hit F1 repeatedly, every time a new browser window opens, and they all show the same: a page on "Writing Code in the Code and Text Editor"
If you choose "Launch in help viewer", it complains that you haven't downloaded any content yet. There are some gigabytes of "help" from the previous VS version, which is still active, but M$ doesn't communicate with Microsoft, it seems.
Etc etc etc ... VS is just an incredibly lousy immature crappy piece of s**tware. So why are there people who call it "the best IDE"??? Are the others even worse?
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