Not to derail the discussion but this makes me wonder if anyone here in the US actually uses .us or .co.us instead of .com, .net, .org, or .gov.

Not at all.

He’s a billionaire genius playboy philanthropist.

Visual Studio for Mac was never the real Visual Studio it was a reskin of Xamarin Studio.

I don’t actually use VS either mostly because I prefer to use a lighter editor and the commandline. But it does set a high bar for what an IDE should be.

There’s also Zed. It’s still pretty new and barebones but I like it a lot more than Code or anything else.

It looks like they deprecated that one so they can sell the Rust plug-in for CLion. Granted RustRover is free for non-commercial use.

Stuff like this is why I don’t mess with paid IDEs and editors.

They’re really not. As much as I hate commercial licensing for any dev tools, if you want to talk about superior there’s nothing quite as good as Visual Studio (not code) on Windows.

OS and embedded dev here. I use assembly all the time. I’ve even worked on firmware that was entirely in assembly of strict requirements that couldn’t be met in C.

Also even machine code hides a lot about how the underlying machine works so if you really want to do computing from scratch you really do hate to invent the universe because there’s abstractions all the way up the hardware stack just like there is in software.

This is the result of so called tribal knowledge in software development. It’s even worse when the senior citizen who understands everything retires, goes senile, or dies.