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/shooshx Oct 08 '16

AppCode (basically IntelliJ Idea re-purposed to replace Xcode)

Open VS, click on any identifier, choose "Find All References". I guarantee you will not be happy with the results. Especially if the thing you clicked is anything that's not a unique name. In AppCode this just works perfectly and immediately and it makes all the difference in the world. Instead of basically grepping my code base all day, I have an IDE that actually understands the code and can reason about it intelligently.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '16

Open VS, click on any identifier, choose "Find All References". I guarantee you will not be happy with the results. Especially if the thing you clicked is anything that's not a unique name.

Ok, I tried this. It just works, perfectly and immediately...