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WORKED
59/100
ALIGNAI SCORE
CONFIDENCE 99.7%
Community Verified
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Visual Studio
Microsoft's integrated development environment for building software applications.
WORKEDAI Build
Pricing
Freemium
Learning curve
Moderate
Time to value
Immediate
BEST FORSoloSmall Team
COMMUNITY SENTIMENT
PositiveNegative
WORKS FOR

Visually dragging components to build applications, General development IDE

KEY INSIGHT

It excels at visual, rapid application development but can suffer from performance issues.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

End-user visible performance degradation

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Community Reviews

Reviews from Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News & AlignAI members

WORKED

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)

FAILED

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

WORKED

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

FAILED

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)

MIXED

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.

MIXED

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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