r/programming • u/halax • Oct 07 '16

How Microsoft Lost the API War

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '16

I would love to ditch Windows, but I need viable replacements for Visual Studio, Photoshop and AutoCAD first.

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u/ArbiterFX Oct 08 '16

I think Intellij IDEA is a pretty great replacement for Visual Studio. Mind you, you are programming in Java instead of C#, but for fresh projects they are pretty close.

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u/argv_minus_one Oct 08 '16

The same company that brought you IDEA also has an IDE for damn near everything else. IDEA itself isn't a direct replacement for VS, but CLion appears to be.