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Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by jen20 on Friday May 27, 2016 @06:37PM (#11789549)
> an IDE that was not unusably slow and buggy

Can't argue about the UI stack in general, but IntelliJ is a dream compared to anything Microsoft have ever produced.

Re:Jury in Oracle v. Google finds in Google's favour by Zigurd on Saturday May 28, 2016 @09:03AM (#11791490)
I'm talking about Forte, circa 2000. That's when Sun sued Microsoft over Visual J++.

Forte later became NetBeans and today it is fine but it was rubbish back then especially compared to Microsoft's tool chain.