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Funny, those of us who enjoy using Windows (esp. Visual Studio) for dev but are aware of how powerful command line tools are find it hard to convince you guys of the reverse in exactly the same way. We don't get the feeling you know what you're missing out on either. ;)

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I spend half my waking hours staring at Xcode, so believe me, I do know when command line tools are lacking ;)

You should try Visual Studio, on Windows if you have to ;) it's not just CLI vs. GUI that I'm talking about, though that's of course a significant part of it too. Eclipse is a GUI too but I still find it painful. (w.r.t. Xcode I've only barely touched it, so hard to compare, but nothing particularly good or bad stood out to me in the little bit I used it.)

Is there a difference between Visual Studio's Windows and Linux versions?

Visual studio and visual studio code are two very different products. Visual studio doesn't even run on Linux.

Thanks for the explanation.

I think you could say Visual Studio Code is to Visual Studio as GIMP is to Adobe Photoshop? Decent, and still useful/handy, but honestly still not even a comparable substitute.

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