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Great! Can I add it to the post?

The only thing that I'm really missing is Resharper. For other things XS is very similar to VS. Remember that the cost is $300 for each platform, so you have to spend $600.

Totally agree. Prices could be lower and they would have a bigger market share in mobile development.

Have you ever tried Xamarin Studio? It's not as good as Visual Studio but it's a very decent IDE. I'm currently using it instead Visual Studio.

Updated to cover async/await and function programming support.

Working without plugins support is not a option for me. We have to always try use the most productive environment and if we can't do it due licenses cost, it's time to analyze the platform.

Joshua, a developer costs $100k per year in United States.

Now consider India, Latin America and other countries.

For example: I live in Salvador - Brazil here a developer costs $10k-$20k per year.

In this scenario, this tools represent between 50%-100% of the developer cost.

I think that in India it's even worst.

+1

Is possible to use F# for web applications ?

C# no doubt. But sometimes you just want to put some idea online, fast, a MVP for example. In this case, C# is more burocratic than Ruby/Python.

With the professional you lose test coverage =/ but yes, you have plugin support.

And spending money that could be used to attract more developers or be invested in another way that not buying licenses.

Agree. When I tried to learn Scala I found it very similar to C#, only changes the name map -> select, filter -> where and so on.

I'm the same situation, love C# but the TCO is higher than other languages and we have the Microsoft controlling each step.

Ok, but you will lose the plugins support and will also have to change the Visual Studio Express with you want to work in another project type (web, mobile and so on).

Really ? I found it cool. Are more people with the same feeling ?

For me, C# still lacks a bootstrap project like Rails to boost the team productivity. I always have the feeling that the ruby/python teams are more productive cause they have Rails/Django.

Should be awesome!

In my opinion a developer should always pursuit the better setup to be able to use all the features that a platform offers. Visual Studio Express lacks important things that the Ultimate Version has.

For example, plugins support.

In Latin America, Windows Phone's sales are already bigger than iOS's sales. In Europe, WP is also advancing more than iOS.

Cross-Platform mobile development ?

BizSpark is awesome but not all companies are startups, for those with more than 3 years, the cost is still a problem.

Totally agree. Show some C# code to a Java dev and he will be fascinated.

More one day in Hacker news first page. Congrats =D

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It works only in python, I think. At time, where is the best practice when testing in python ? Doctests or unittest ?

With all the respect in the world, but documentation like that, don't provide any useful information. It only produces noise.

Exactly, why write comments if you can choose better names ?

Totally agree.

It isn't to be contrarian. Discuss things like that, make new good practices born. It was the same with goto, singleton pattern and other things.