What exactly is Visual Studio going to protect you from?! I'm struggling to see how coding the thing in C using Visual Studio is going to be substantially easier in any meaningful way than coding it in C using anything else. It's just going to cut out some of the Unix crap. And, well - what's the problem with that? Why does coding always have to be done via the Unix command line and terminal-based tools?

Perhaps everybody else's definition of "real" programming is just rather different from mine, but I personally see use of the command line rather than some GUI tool as a mostly-irrelevant side issue that has relatively little to do with making the computer do things by writing code.