Have you tried VS Code (https://code.visualstudio.com/) with the right plugins it might be exactly what you're after...
On the "faster" claim, you may miss it with all the visual noise but on the blog posts they boast noticeable speedups, although I didn't see any quantification.
Re:Visual Studio 2017 What's New Poster
by caesarshift on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:34PM
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Item #9 from an earlier release announcement says "starting up, loading projects and building": https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/uktechnet/2016/11/29/vis...
There's a five part blog series on performance improvements in VS2017 (then codenamed version "15"), here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/14/imp...
Honestly, I wish it would do less, but a lot better. Rather than adding new features, I would love to see the following addressed:
- 64-bit by default. I am developing for Windows 10, make the entire C# toolchain emit 64-bit binaries. Make devenv.exe 64-bit, make the default build/compile 64-bit
- Make the XAML editor work without bombing out in not-that-unreasonable scenarios.
- Make it faster. Everywhere. Make project startup faster, make static analysis faster, make the compiler faster.
I don't use probably 90% of what it does. You're never going to convince me VS is a better tool for deployments, managing databases, or the approximately 50 other things it tries to do, better than purpose-built, scriptable tools. Just make a fast, purpose-built code editor with good static analysis capabilities, and get out of my way. FWIW, I'm really liking Visual Studio Code these days, it's more in line with what I want.