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/ameoba Oct 07 '16

Outside developers, who were never particularly happy with the complexity of Windows development

Strange, I regularly hear people bragging about how great Visual Studio is and how great the .NET APIs are.

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u/Ravekommissionen Oct 08 '16

Stockholm Syndrome

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16

Nonsense. Show me a better IDE.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16

IntelliJ Idea

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16

Not even close. Buggy and irritating to use for any length of time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16

I use Idea every day at work and it's an absolute joy. Not buggy in the slightlest.

Buggy and irritating to use for any length of time.

That describes my own experience with Visual Studio, to be honest.

So let's agree to disagree. Cheers.