If it is a tier-1 language why isn't it supported in Visual Studio?
I'd be curious to know whether Rust developers believe Visual Studio is the right place for Microsoft to invest Rust specific coding capabilities.
I'd argue that the former is less important than the latter, and my understanding is that Visual Studio is still the IDE for Windows-centric development, so for those MS-first developers, Rust missing from VS means Rust is poorly supported, end of story.
WSL is really nice, as is Windows Terminal. I particularly love its fonts (but that's probably just me).
If they can replicate that capability, I think it can be a draw.
I was a mac / Linux guy before my current gig, but Visual Studio is so much more capable than XCode that I basically only use the Windows machine except to debug mac-specific issues. Less so, now, admittedly, that the malware scanner process is literally always pegging a CPU core.
The alternative being macOS, if Apple actually had competitive prices for all kinds of world economies.
Regardless of how evil gigantic companies can be, or what the ideal world should look like: from a pure usability perspective, windows is top of the list.
If I got 5$ every time a linux/mac enthousiasts has to tell me they just cannot run something, and proposing a myriad of workarounds to stick to their ideology, I could buy an apple vision pro and let it collect dust in the corner of my basement.
I would argue against the idea that it's the default for most enterprise dev. What you refer to as creative/web culture I would refer to as a newer generation of enterprise dev written in (I know) JS, TS, Electron etc. There is a lot of cross platform stuff out there, at least for clients, and Linux has taken up a lot of ground in the server market as well.
With CAD and GPU programming you have a point - proprietary drivers written for Windows has more technical sticking power.
I guess my feeling is that, especially with all the headlines saying European countries will move away from American software giants, Windows seems less attractive as a long term target for investing my time. Not to mention it's buggy and slow these days.
For us to actually move away, European countries need to be willing to fully support the whole programming stack, and hardware.
Because of coding agents? :D
That's an excuse, not the reason.
IntelliJ RustRover has been around for years.
Similarly, VS Code has had Rust plugins written by the community in their spare time years ago.
( Edit: I should probably inform the layperson: It was Visual Studio 2022 )
> BuildXL has also been proven to scale to large codebases (e.g., Windows/Office repositories) where builds can consist of millions of processes with terabytes of outputs
BuildXL is also NOT compatible with VS and they have no plans to make it so. from the readme in the repo: https://github.com/microsoft/BuildXL
> There are currently no plans to integrate it into Visual Studio.
And for all we know, it might be officially supported in their internal builds of Visual Studio.
I don't think this is a hot take, but I'm predicting Microsoft will gradually phase out Visual Studio in favor of VS Code.
Yeah, I know that it can read Visual Studio Projects and Solutions but these are kludges. It's essentially a souped-up file editor.