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Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by sangnoir on Friday January 15, 2016 @06:51AM (#10908676)
> Maybe you should have gotten a better machine then. If by a few years ago you mean 2010, then sure. We're 1/2 a decade past that now.

I disagree as a developer who does (personal) development on a 2010 laptop (1st gen Westmere, upgraded to SSD). My laptop is perfectly adequate for my development work (Android, Python). Besides, no ones should have to run Windows via hypervisor in a multi-platform world such as the one Microsoft is promising for C#, this is what makes beefy machines 'necessary'.

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Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by iolothebard on Friday January 15, 2016 @08:46AM (#10909234)
No one forces you to use MS products, a MS OS VM or C#.

So it's not 'necessary', it's a choice you're making.

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