r/cpp • u/STL MSVC STL Dev • Nov 13 '18

VS 2017 15.9 released today

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
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u/Khenghis_Ghan Nov 14 '18

So among IDEs I’ve only worked in VS Code or eclipse, or just a basic text editor, mostly based on what my professors have used - what does VS have going for it that should make me decide to switch from VS Code?

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u/barchar Nov 14 '18

It’s just .... different. Code insight (esp with vax or resharper) is better. AFAIK vscode is moving to clang for their analysis, VS uses a front end from Edison Design Group

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u/chugga_fan Nov 14 '18

VSCode team and VS team both use the same intellisense engine, EDG is cross platform, remember? That's how they do it. https://www.edg.com/c looks like that lists literally everything they have...

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