Advice from a fellow dev: add a crash handler and set it up for an automatic submission of crash reports (symbolicated callstacks of all threads) via HTTP POST to a server.

Better yet, turn it into something that others can use easily by configuring things like the server to which send the reports.

I did this for SumatraPDF (https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf/blob/master/s...) and now I think it's a must for writing desktop software that runs on other people's machines.

A shockingly low number of people report crash reports.

I know because I show a message box telling them to submit a bug report for a crash. I get plenty of crashes but no bug reports.

From a privacy perspective this is a problematic stance, though it is appreciated that you outline that it does this here.

My custom crash dumps just go direct to email via gmail smtp. No need to build a server API :)

Crash dumps are a GDPR nightmare though, be careful.

I can't thank you enough for making SumatraPDF. Great job.

How much work is it to port the IDE to other platforms?

The IDE is maybe one of the nice/important aspects of this project, but then this really should not be Windows-only. Or maybe that are your priorities, but then I would not expect that it gets much adoption outside of the Windows world, but maybe this is ok for you.

I picked the same and use the menu to build, but I don't have VisualStudio, so perhaps the sample didn't really build. Then I was clicking around the menu and chose the Single-Step option on the menu (F11? F10?) when the IDE crashed.