As much as I am a VS fanboy, the new theme has more margins on everything, which means fewer things (tabs, list items, lines, buttons) fit on the screen :(
You know that sinking feeling when lag interrupts your flow? We’ve worked hard to make that a thing of the past. Blazing-fast performance means startup is significantly snappier, and the UI responds so smoothly you’ll barely notice it’s there, cutting hangs by over 50% and giving the IDE a lightweight, effortless vibe, even on massive projects. Whether you’re wrangling enterprise-scale repos or tinkering on smaller codebases, this sets a new bar for getting stuff done.
Marketing jargon aside, it's remarkable that the project is so large and out of control that the target was "cutting hangs by over 50%" instead of "we found the bug that was causing the UI to hang and fixed it".
I mean, it's a 25 year old codebase at this point with a massive feature set.
And it should have a massive feature set and codebase given how much they charge for the Pro and Ultimate versions.
But anyways, I disagree that it's "out of control." I've been using it since like 2003, when it was called Visual Studio.NET. It is a vastly improved product. But heck, I started at a job where they're still using 2019 and the first thing I did was insist we upgrade to 2022 because it was a really noticeable improvement for me. I'm not one to upgrade for the sake of upgrading, and I don't know if this new version is the massive upgrade that some previous versions were, but I have it installed side-by-side with 2019 and 2022.
I've been running the Insiders edition since they dropped it a few months ago, and one thing I have noticed is that upgrades are significantly faster than they are for 2022, but that could be due to me having fewer features installed.
I've met MadsK in the past and he is definitely passionate about constantly improving Visual Studio. That team is far smaller than most people might think, so I find it impressive that they've been able to effect so much improvement in this release.
I've been using it from 2015 through the latest version at work on a semi-large old crusty codebase and the performance (and stability!) improvements were definitely worth upgrading.
(Now if they could do the same with the ImageWatch plugin that nobody seems to have the source code of. The current versions do not even work and I'm just install an old version which I never ever upgrade, but it's definitely annoying.)
I am honestly just dooming out on how much worse the criticism is than the actual product criticised.
People just realize just how much support VS has built for the weirdest toolings and outdated concepts in need of support in a society run on janky nonsense built by VS.
If VS legitimately has to read 210 vcprojs and csprojs for one click application manifests, serviceconfigs.jsons and COM+ manifests and load all that stuff during most operations there is bound to be some time lost.
Dear lord I dont see why you got so down voted for such an innocuous comment. I will say, Rider is great and being cross platform makes it the best IDE if you need it on *nix, but if you do have access to a Windows machine VS is pretty sick these days. Im on mac only temporarily so im glad we still have a great IDE over here.
This can’t really happen. The two products are pretty different, even if they overlap as code editors. Full fledged VS is much more and has a quite different philosophy compared to Code. Love them both!
Oh I know. But they’ve been pushing c# env in vscode quite a lot the last two years or so. I actually like VS but they don’t have it for Mac or at least they didn’t a few years ago
No you can do it via command line, cmake, ninja, etc. The cli tool just comes with the vs installer, but theoretically could have a standalone download (which might already exist).
but theoretically could have a standalone download (which might already exist).
The answer is "YES", the thing you are referring to is Visual Studio Build Tools which come from the Visual Studio installer. Confidently incorrect people on reddit are the worst.
You can download the "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2026" on the website if you want MSVC. They still require the Visual Studio Installer, but don't include the IDE.
Better yet, use zig to compile on windows. I known people who got zig cc and zig c++ up and running within minutes after failing to install a windows compiler for hours
I once saw an MS dev say people at MS don't really use the build tools package, because it's so hard to find and not really talked about. I have no idea if his words were accurate
Honestly it is tiring seeing so many people default to complaining and nitpicks on Reddit.
They made the IDE faster. Is it on par with Vim? No. We still have a case of management prioritising performance. Something I’m sure those same commenters complain companies don’t do. Is it perfect? No. It’s still a big step in the right direction. Is the copy all marketing spiel? Yes. It’s Microsoft. They have a marketing department. Get over it. Go use the IDE (or not); that’s what matters.
I have no rat in this game. I haven’t used Visual Studio in about 10 years, don’t develop on MS stacks, and use a Mac. But still kudos to them for making the IDE a nicer experience.
To be fair, VSCode is a much nicer experience than XCode (from what I remember of it, maybe it has changed) and so if you're coming from that world, I totally get it.
IMHO, they should have rewritten it in .Net decades ago.
Anyway, for me the best version was 2005/2008 along with Resharper 4 or so. It was amazing how consistent all keyboard shortcuts were, and how quick one could code and fill in the gaps with smart features. After that both Resharper and Visual Studio seems to fight over the same keyboard shortcuts and I never really got it to be that tight and good again.
These days I thankfully use something else. I can recommend Cursor, at least for web/ts etc. It fills in the gaps when you code in a really nice way.
Do I read this page https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/en/vs/pricing/?tab=paid-subscriptions correctly that there is no pay-once license anymore (outside of volume licensing agreements) anymore? Just subscriptions?
Disclaimer: 2nd/3rd hand understanding from our license/legal, which are of course not your VAR/Licensing/legal, blah blah.
The historical pay-once were semi-poison pilled anyways, effectively locking you to only be valid in deploying to other in-time-like service level items. IE, if you had pay-once VS 2016, it is only valid to compile for Server 2016 and older. If you used VS to target anything newer, you required CALs or whatever.
The last forward-able VS was something like VS2008? supposedly? All others since basically meant you had to use the subscription or else walk very tight licensing lines. Granted most of the time ignored but were devil-in-details traps waiting like most megacorp licensing agreements (Oracle/VMWare/etc "surprise! Audit! pay us more!").
Can you elaborate on this point? If I have pay-once VS 2016 then are you saying that I had to use it on Windows Server 2016 and using it on, say, Windows Server 2025 would be prohibited?
Surely it can't mean that people who use my software can only use it on Windows Server 2016.
But if the only restriction is what you can use the IDE on, yeah that does kind of suck but it's not the end of the world by any means.
The latter was what our legal sussed out of the details, again not your legal, etc.
That whatever you build with VS can only run on "compatibly licensed" systems. With the subscription, it is effectively all supported MSFT products, but with the pay-once it is that-pay-year and no further. However the catch of complexity is... Any later use, such as running your software on Server 2022, could be valid if the server itself has the CALs assigned or something.
There is... complication as well as "are you compiling for Server 2016-and-earlier only? Never using any SDK/Header/etc that targets newer than cutoff?" So, if you are VS2016, and can assert you aren't using any RID or WinSDKs newer than Server2016 (or equiv) and users happen to use it on Server2022 say, that... might be fine as well?
Basically, the mess is hairy enough that I am surprised anyone went for the pay-once plans that had a legal look at it.
That whatever you build with VS can only run on "compatibly licensed" systems.
Yeah, I'm skeptical; moreso if your "legal" was in-house legal. Those make the most brain-damaged conclusions you would ever find, and are fond of saying "what does GPL mean" and shit like that.
My litmus test with in-house legal is to ask one of them for a quick 1-sentence answer on whether an LGPL licence is suitable for use in our proprietary product.
Any reply with "I'll have to read that licence first", or "schedule a meeting", or "it depends on the exact terms" etc means they have no fucking idea what they are doing, and even less of what the company is doing.
Get a second opinion.
This take from your legal on what counts as derived works is absolutely insane and has been repeatedly failed to be proven in US courts.
When the owner of a tool uses the tool, whether software or not, to create a product, precedent is very firmly on the side of the tool vendor having absolutely no rights over the resulting product, rather than the tool owner having no rights over the resulting product.
The worst they can do is refuse to sell you the next version (see Redhat/IBM; their licence that included a refusal to do further business with you if you used their GPLed code according to the licensing terms of the GPL).
I've seen poor takes from lawyers WRT to software and IP, but this really is the funniest.
I'd be really curious where that comes from. It's been a couple years since I read the licensing for Visual Studio Professional but I don't recall that ever coming up anywhere in the agreement. The only reason I ended up having to purchase Professional was because my company's revenue exceeds whats permitted on Community so I do recall reading the licensing docs pretty thoroughly at the time (the terms aren't very long)
I think something very few schools teach you about is that Microsoft compilers are heavily restricted in terms of license. As long as you're a student everything is fine and dandy, but anything else and you essentially have to buy a subscription except for very rare edge cases.
Fortunately we only deploy to Win10 and 11 (pure WPF desktop app), so this shouldn’t matter.
Plus, we basically only need the VS license for Remote debugging. Releases are done by the ci server anyways, and most of the developing is done in Rider. Rider is just terrible for WPF remote debugging…
For developers who want to purchase a stand-alone Professional license, Visual Studio 2026 will be available through the Microsoft Store starting December 1, 2025.
Visual Studio 2026 is here: faster, smarter, and a hit with early adopters...In the year leading up to this release, we fixed over 5,000 of your reported bugs...Stats are cool, but what really matters is how it actually feels to use. The IDE just runs way faster, smoother, and more responsive. That’s something you can’t always see in the numbers.
I hope it's better. I'm so done with the current version randomly just "forgetting" its typescript support and having to restart it multiple times per day.
Similar thing. Working with Blazor, mine will randomly lose its mind and tell me I have errors but not show where they're at and need a restart to do so or tell me I have errors and then they'll be gone after a restart.
For VSCode you can Restart TypeScript server from the command palette rather than restarting all of VSCode.
As others have pointed out, this is a post about Visual Studio, not to be confused with Visual Studio Code.
I feel that allowing these kinds of posts are unfair.
Large company with a marketing budgets greater than the combined income of all the readers of this subreddit on a single given day - go ahead and post your product plugs!
Sole developer writes a thing over many months, tries to show it off here, with a liberal open source license - removed by moderators.
I had no idea VS was still being developed. Hopefully my editor will be usable before the end of the year.
The most recent screenshot is before my rewrite, enjoy I guess. Today I've been working on semantic tokens (from LSP) so it'll look better than the screenshot https://bold-edit.com/static/prettyprint-0.4-light.png
I wish they changed this name. It is so confusing. Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio are different tools for different needs, but the first can be turned into the second using a ton of extensions.
"Suddenly the ui took 3.4ms, it used to be 1.5, I thought I was fired" - Gamedev
"The ui thread is now only blocked for 3400ms, and it loads in 8300!" - VS team
Great that it's better though. But 10-100, perhaps 1000x seems plausible.
Kronikarz@reddit
As much as I am a VS fanboy, the new theme has more margins on everything, which means fewer things (tabs, list items, lines, buttons) fit on the screen :(
Devatator_@reddit
To me it looks like JetBrains IDEs have an even bigger/worse margin than this?
wildjokers@reddit
That is the new UI fad. Jetbrains did the same thing in their new UI for their IDEs. Added tons of padding around everything. Why? No idea.
troccolins@reddit
Is it something that can be changed in settings in 2025????
obetu5432@reddit
there are VS fanboys?
RlyRlyBigMan@reddit
What, you don't code on a touchscreen like the rest of us?
frnxt@reddit
Oh no...
Venthe@reddit
I hate this trend; I can understand that some people might be happy about it due to accessibility; but usually even the compact theme is too wide.
levelstar01@reddit
Instinctive repulsion reading this.
LeifCarrotson@reddit
Marketing jargon aside, it's remarkable that the project is so large and out of control that the target was "cutting hangs by over 50%" instead of "we found the bug that was causing the UI to hang and fixed it".
TwatWaffleInParadise@reddit
I mean, it's a 25 year old codebase at this point with a massive feature set.
And it should have a massive feature set and codebase given how much they charge for the Pro and Ultimate versions.
But anyways, I disagree that it's "out of control." I've been using it since like 2003, when it was called Visual Studio.NET. It is a vastly improved product. But heck, I started at a job where they're still using 2019 and the first thing I did was insist we upgrade to 2022 because it was a really noticeable improvement for me. I'm not one to upgrade for the sake of upgrading, and I don't know if this new version is the massive upgrade that some previous versions were, but I have it installed side-by-side with 2019 and 2022.
I've been running the Insiders edition since they dropped it a few months ago, and one thing I have noticed is that upgrades are significantly faster than they are for 2022, but that could be due to me having fewer features installed.
I've met MadsK in the past and he is definitely passionate about constantly improving Visual Studio. That team is far smaller than most people might think, so I find it impressive that they've been able to effect so much improvement in this release.
Though I do still prefer Code for a lot of stuff.
TheFr0sk@reddit
Jetbrains idea is also 25 years old and does not hang massively
Devatator_@reddit
Rider is noticeably slower on both my gaming PC and my college laptop. It became even more noticeable with VS2026, on top of eating less RAM
frnxt@reddit
I've been using it from 2015 through the latest version at work on a semi-large old crusty codebase and the performance (and stability!) improvements were definitely worth upgrading.
(Now if they could do the same with the ImageWatch plugin that nobody seems to have the source code of. The current versions do not even work and I'm just install an old version which I never ever upgrade, but it's definitely annoying.)
zzkj@reddit
I still rue the day Visual C++ became Visual Studio back in '97!
LuckyHedgehog@reddit
29 in March, so closer to 30
SkoomaDentist@reddit
VS .NET was a full rewrite of the Visual Studio part afaik, so only 25-ish years.
phillipcarter2@reddit
Oh sweet summer child, believing it’s just one bug.
sweetno@reddit
These lags are not bugs, it's poor design that didn't foresee performance bottlenecks.
V1k1ngC0d3r@reddit
Sorry, no.
They prioritized features, among them performance.
You may argue that they prioritized incorrectly.
But pinning this on "poor design" is really dumb.
anonveggy@reddit
I am honestly just dooming out on how much worse the criticism is than the actual product criticised.
People just realize just how much support VS has built for the weirdest toolings and outdated concepts in need of support in a society run on janky nonsense built by VS.
If VS legitimately has to read 210 vcprojs and csprojs for one click application manifests, serviceconfigs.jsons and COM+ manifests and load all that stuff during most operations there is bound to be some time lost.
sweetno@reddit
This reminds me the rumor that Windows has to read half of Registry when you right-click in Explorer.
anonveggy@reddit
If you knew how slow actual registry reads are there wouldn't be any browsing that porn folder you accrued over these years.
Mognakor@reddit
Just set the "uiHangs" flag to false, duh.
piotrlewandowski@reddit
You need MS account for that
The_real_bandito@reddit
That was 100% written by Copilot.
DynamicHunter@reddit
100% written by AI. The cadence, and especially the use of the phrase “lightweight, effortless vibe”
1RedOne@reddit
Vibes such a tell
wildjokers@reddit
So was the code that supposedly makes it faster...lol.
levodelellis@reddit
Immediately under it, load time measured in seconds
Probable_Foreigner@reddit
Can we all agree to ban these words from existence? Also the fire and sparkle emojis have to go, they've been tainted
Alundra828@reddit
It's like it was written for gen alpha teenagers trying to get into development lmao
Coffee_Ops@reddit
Also, isn't that sinking feeling due to lag just part of the normal VS startup process?
scorcher24@reddit
Can the editor now put quotes around a selected text? That annoyed me to know end with 22, after all these Editors came out :D.
god_is_my_father@reddit
Honestly thought they were shelving this in favor of vscode. Happy to see that isn’t the case. I am on rider tho which is pretty dope
sweetno@reddit
Vscode is for JS, VS for C# and .NET in general.
Halkcyon@reddit
I'll say F# on vscode w/ ionide is a superior experience than Visual Studio.
Mystb0rn@reddit
Dear lord I dont see why you got so down voted for such an innocuous comment. I will say, Rider is great and being cross platform makes it the best IDE if you need it on *nix, but if you do have access to a Windows machine VS is pretty sick these days. Im on mac only temporarily so im glad we still have a great IDE over here.
Halkcyon@reddit
Because the two things solve completely different problems and they come across as extremely uninformed/naive.
god_is_my_father@reddit
Yea engineers are a fickle bunch 😂
tekanet@reddit
This can’t really happen. The two products are pretty different, even if they overlap as code editors. Full fledged VS is much more and has a quite different philosophy compared to Code. Love them both!
god_is_my_father@reddit
Oh I know. But they’ve been pushing c# env in vscode quite a lot the last two years or so. I actually like VS but they don’t have it for Mac or at least they didn’t a few years ago
Halkcyon@reddit
Yes, they did have it a few years ago. It was only recently discontinued.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/what-happened-to-vs-for-mac
darleyb@reddit
Doesn't one always need Visual Studio (not VS Code) to compile with Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC)?
Mystb0rn@reddit
No you can do it via command line, cmake, ninja, etc. The cli tool just comes with the vs installer, but theoretically could have a standalone download (which might already exist).
Halkcyon@reddit
The answer is "YES", the thing you are referring to is Visual Studio Build Tools which come from the Visual Studio installer. Confidently incorrect people on reddit are the worst.
LucasOe@reddit
You can download the "Build Tools for Visual Studio 2026" on the website if you want MSVC. They still require the Visual Studio Installer, but don't include the IDE.
levodelellis@reddit
Better yet, use zig to compile on windows. I known people who got
zig ccandzig c++up and running within minutes after failing to install a windows compiler for hoursI once saw an MS dev say people at MS don't really use the build tools package, because it's so hard to find and not really talked about. I have no idea if his words were accurate
Halkcyon@reddit
Yes, at a minimum, the VS Build Tools package.
maqcky@reddit
No way they are doing that. VS is a huge revenue generator. It's not only .NET. The gaming industry, for instance, depends on it.
levodelellis@reddit
I hear some game developers use and strongly enjoy 10x
jl2352@reddit
Honestly it is tiring seeing so many people default to complaining and nitpicks on Reddit.
They made the IDE faster. Is it on par with Vim? No. We still have a case of management prioritising performance. Something I’m sure those same commenters complain companies don’t do. Is it perfect? No. It’s still a big step in the right direction. Is the copy all marketing spiel? Yes. It’s Microsoft. They have a marketing department. Get over it. Go use the IDE (or not); that’s what matters.
I have no rat in this game. I haven’t used Visual Studio in about 10 years, don’t develop on MS stacks, and use a Mac. But still kudos to them for making the IDE a nicer experience.
lunchmeat317@reddit
To be fair, VSCode is a much nicer experience than XCode (from what I remember of it, maybe it has changed) and so if you're coming from that world, I totally get it.
themattman18@reddit
Sir, this is Reddit. Complaining is part of the culture
retrib32@reddit
Just switch to Zed
KevinCarbonara@reddit
Is it worth upgrading?
DaRKoN_@reddit
Yes.
beachcode@reddit
IMHO, they should have rewritten it in .Net decades ago.
Anyway, for me the best version was 2005/2008 along with Resharper 4 or so. It was amazing how consistent all keyboard shortcuts were, and how quick one could code and fill in the gaps with smart features. After that both Resharper and Visual Studio seems to fight over the same keyboard shortcuts and I never really got it to be that tight and good again.
These days I thankfully use something else. I can recommend Cursor, at least for web/ts etc. It fills in the gaps when you code in a really nice way.
DaRKoN_@reddit
It is primarily in .NET (framework). It's a wpf app.
autokiller677@reddit
Do I read this page https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/en/vs/pricing/?tab=paid-subscriptions correctly that there is no pay-once license anymore (outside of volume licensing agreements) anymore? Just subscriptions?
ToaruBaka@reddit
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/d/visual-studio-professional-2022/dg7gmgf0d3sj?rtc=1&activetab=pivot:overviewtab
For the low price of $499 you can buy the 2022 edition. 2026 Edition will be available Dec 1.
2024-04-29-throwaway@reddit
That's actually reasonable. I remember VS costing thousands, and that's without accounting for inflation.
admalledd@reddit
Disclaimer: 2nd/3rd hand understanding from our license/legal, which are of course not your VAR/Licensing/legal, blah blah.
The historical pay-once were semi-poison pilled anyways, effectively locking you to only be valid in deploying to other in-time-like service level items. IE, if you had pay-once VS 2016, it is only valid to compile for Server 2016 and older. If you used VS to target anything newer, you required CALs or whatever.
The last forward-able VS was something like VS2008? supposedly? All others since basically meant you had to use the subscription or else walk very tight licensing lines. Granted most of the time ignored but were devil-in-details traps waiting like most megacorp licensing agreements (Oracle/VMWare/etc "surprise! Audit! pay us more!").
Maxatar@reddit
Can you elaborate on this point? If I have pay-once VS 2016 then are you saying that I had to use it on Windows Server 2016 and using it on, say, Windows Server 2025 would be prohibited?
Surely it can't mean that people who use my software can only use it on Windows Server 2016.
But if the only restriction is what you can use the IDE on, yeah that does kind of suck but it's not the end of the world by any means.
admalledd@reddit
The latter was what our legal sussed out of the details, again not your legal, etc.
That whatever you build with VS can only run on "compatibly licensed" systems. With the subscription, it is effectively all supported MSFT products, but with the pay-once it is that-pay-year and no further. However the catch of complexity is... Any later use, such as running your software on Server 2022, could be valid if the server itself has the CALs assigned or something.
There is... complication as well as "are you compiling for Server 2016-and-earlier only? Never using any SDK/Header/etc that targets newer than cutoff?" So, if you are VS2016, and can assert you aren't using any RID or WinSDKs newer than Server2016 (or equiv) and users happen to use it on Server2022 say, that... might be fine as well?
Basically, the mess is hairy enough that I am surprised anyone went for the pay-once plans that had a legal look at it.
lelanthran@reddit
Yeah, I'm skeptical; moreso if your "legal" was in-house legal. Those make the most brain-damaged conclusions you would ever find, and are fond of saying "what does GPL mean" and shit like that.
My litmus test with in-house legal is to ask one of them for a quick 1-sentence answer on whether an LGPL licence is suitable for use in our proprietary product.
Any reply with "I'll have to read that licence first", or "schedule a meeting", or "it depends on the exact terms" etc means they have no fucking idea what they are doing, and even less of what the company is doing.
Get a second opinion.
This take from your legal on what counts as derived works is absolutely insane and has been repeatedly failed to be proven in US courts.
When the owner of a tool uses the tool, whether software or not, to create a product, precedent is very firmly on the side of the tool vendor having absolutely no rights over the resulting product, rather than the tool owner having no rights over the resulting product.
The worst they can do is refuse to sell you the next version (see Redhat/IBM; their licence that included a refusal to do further business with you if you used their GPLed code according to the licensing terms of the GPL).
I've seen poor takes from lawyers WRT to software and IP, but this really is the funniest.
6890@reddit
I'd be really curious where that comes from. It's been a couple years since I read the licensing for Visual Studio Professional but I don't recall that ever coming up anywhere in the agreement. The only reason I ended up having to purchase Professional was because my company's revenue exceeds whats permitted on Community so I do recall reading the licensing docs pretty thoroughly at the time (the terms aren't very long)
admalledd@reddit
It is how it ties in other licenses such as the Compiler license, again its semi-hidden trap.
frnxt@reddit
I think something very few schools teach you about is that Microsoft compilers are heavily restricted in terms of license. As long as you're a student everything is fine and dandy, but anything else and you essentially have to buy a subscription except for very rare edge cases.
autokiller677@reddit
Fortunately we only deploy to Win10 and 11 (pure WPF desktop app), so this shouldn’t matter.
Plus, we basically only need the VS license for Remote debugging. Releases are done by the ci server anyways, and most of the developing is done in Rider. Rider is just terrible for WPF remote debugging…
ygra@reddit
That license tends to be available about half a year later. Has been the same with 2022 as well.
chucker23n@reddit
There’s “standalone”. Seems to be Pro-only.
autokiller677@reddit
Only 2022. That’s the license I would like to replace.
Stirgan@reddit
Except the standalone Pro is still 2022 version. Hopefully it'll get updated soon.
Roseking@reddit
Looks like it will be coming December 1st
Frequent-Football984@reddit
Not sure if it is still relevant
appmanga@reddit
Oh yeah!! I'm hyped.
AyrA_ch@reddit
I hope it's better. I'm so done with the current version randomly just "forgetting" its typescript support and having to restart it multiple times per day.
grahamulax@reddit
This happens to me in visual code and I feel gas lit every time it happens. NOW? Validated! VINDICATED!
SargoDarya@reddit
Are you talking about VSCode by any chance? This is talking about Visual Studio
AyrA_ch@reddit
No.
Gee858eeG@reddit
Yeah 100%
Sonicblue281@reddit
Similar thing. Working with Blazor, mine will randomly lose its mind and tell me I have errors but not show where they're at and need a restart to do so or tell me I have errors and then they'll be gone after a restart.
mofojed@reddit
For VSCode you can Restart TypeScript server from the command palette rather than restarting all of VSCode. As others have pointed out, this is a post about Visual Studio, not to be confused with Visual Studio Code.
Chorus23@reddit
Glad it's smoother as I chaff easily. I hope it isn't too responsive - I don't want to compile too early.
lelanthran@reddit
I feel that allowing these kinds of posts are unfair.
Large company with a marketing budgets greater than the combined income of all the readers of this subreddit on a single given day - go ahead and post your product plugs!
Sole developer writes a thing over many months, tries to show it off here, with a liberal open source license - removed by moderators.
gs101@reddit
This is something many people here actually care about, unlike the millionth hobby project
levodelellis@reddit
Visual Studio is so slow that even the video stutters
levodelellis@reddit
I had no idea VS was still being developed. Hopefully my editor will be usable before the end of the year.
The most recent screenshot is before my rewrite, enjoy I guess. Today I've been working on semantic tokens (from LSP) so it'll look better than the screenshot https://bold-edit.com/static/prettyprint-0.4-light.png
Wafflesorbust@reddit
Am I blind/did the setting move, or did they remove the ability to set VS to run as administrator by default?
sadbuttrueasfuck@reddit
We're still in 2025 lol
meganeyangire@reddit
But if they called it Visual Studio 2025, it would've become outdated in two months
zed857@reddit
Software years are now the same thing as car model years.
Ran4@reddit
Car years are the same as the release year
Chorus23@reddit
But not the same as dog years.
zed857@reddit
Uh no? I think you'll find you can purchase plenty of 2026 model year cars right now in 2025.
sadbuttrueasfuck@reddit
I'm gonna release version 2032 of my software, I'll be in the future
Sw0rDz@reddit
You better force AI integrations and uncharted them with the most convoluted method to excempt the features!
WJMazepas@reddit
☝️🤓
VRRifter@reddit
Copilot still better experience in VS Code or are they on parity now?
tekanet@reddit
Same question! In VS is sub par, I’m missing obvious things like “reference all opened documents”
Positive_Method3022@reddit
I wish they changed this name. It is so confusing. Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio are different tools for different needs, but the first can be turned into the second using a ton of extensions.
TwatWaffleInParadise@reddit
Eh, that's just part and parcel for Microsoft. Confusing naming is basically a requirement for their products!
RandomNpc69@reddit
Yeah but native integrations are often much more nicer to use than a dozen extensions duct taped together.
If you don't need the customizability, these big IDEs toolkit are pretty nice to use.
larsjansson@reddit
"Suddenly the ui took 3.4ms, it used to be 1.5, I thought I was fired" - Gamedev "The ui thread is now only blocked for 3400ms, and it loads in 8300!" - VS team
Great that it's better though. But 10-100, perhaps 1000x seems plausible.
Sensitive_Item_7715@reddit
I can't stand VS code. Jetbrains 4 ever.
C0rn3j@reddit
This is about Visual Studio, not VSC.
sweetno@reddit
Tells you how VS is going nowadays. Anytime I have to google VS-related things, I have to add
-codeto get relevant responses.WalkingRazor@reddit
Is there a keyboard shortcut I can set to switch between panes? (I am aware about ctrl+tab but that’s not what I am looking for)
obetu5432@reddit
and more specifically?
RapunzelLooksNice@reddit
So this is the last Visual Studio ever? ;) developers will be replaced by AI, soon(tm)