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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by bitmapbrother on Sunday January 03, 2016 @12:52AM (#10829694)
Reminds me of the time I installed Visual Studio 2015. That pig sprayed over 30 GB of files onto my HDD and still needed 3rd party plugins to be on the same level as IntelliJ.
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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by alkonaut on Sunday January 03, 2016 @04:32AM (#10830050)
That's a bit excessive, did you install all of the vs stuff (all languages & tools including c++, office dev tools, silverlight, light switch etc)? If you just choose C# it's a bit better (though still big). And yes you still need Resharper, ironically made by JetBrains, for it to be on the level of IntelliJ.
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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by userbinator on Sunday January 03, 2016 @10:46AM (#10830952)
VS2015's installer is notoriously uncustomisable - it installs a bunch of useless stuff without letting you choose.

https://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-stud...

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by gelasio on Sunday January 03, 2016 @12:43PM (#10831393)
It's amazing how one man's "pig" can be a ton of other people's "best IDE that there is".

At least in the case of Visual Studio...I don't hear quite as many people naming IntelliJ as "the best". Not even close.

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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by bitmapbrother on Sunday January 03, 2016 @09:58PM (#10833784)
The only people I hear calling Visual Studio "the best" are usually .NET developers. Considering their lack of choices I'm not surprised.
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Re:IntelliJ IDEA and the whole IntelliJ platform migrates to... by wallstop on Monday January 04, 2016 @02:21AM (#10834410)
Anecdotal counterpoint: I develop java and python at work, C# and C++ at home, use / have used Eclipse, IntelliJ, ST + plugins, vim, Visual Studio Code, and Visual Studio for development. Of all of the above, I've found that Visual Studio is by far the most pleasant to work in environment (for C# and C++), hands down.
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