Visually dragging components to build applications, General development IDE
It excels at visual, rapid application development but can suffer from performance issues.
End-user visible performance degradation
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Xcode might not have been as well developed as compared to Visual Studio for a long time
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Development (implied comparison benchmark)
It was also not a good look that Microsoft's own flagship applications like Visual Studio and Office did not show any progress toward adopting UWP.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Development IDE
On a bad day this might recurse down to extremely simple things like... open the visual studio project, but I d write it down and checkmark it nonetheless to force myself to make minimal progress.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Opening a project as a minimal, forced progress step during a difficult period
We can talk about bloated software like Office or Visual Studio... I could run something like Visual Studio 6.0 from the late 90s and will load INSTANTLY on a modern machine.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Integrated development environment (IDE)
There was a joy when 'Visual Studio' meant 'you can visually drag a component on and that is the app' instead of editing text files.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Visually dragging components to build applications, representing an initial joy and freedom in development.
Casey Muratori has some great YouTube videos (a.k.a.: rants) about the end-user visible performance degradation... E.g.: Visual Studio Rant.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General development IDE
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