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March 14, 2008
The Right Tools Make All The Difference
We're a Windows shop at work - and this is the first time in my career that I've done any real development under Windows.
I'd heard people rave about Visual Studio, and after nearly two years - please, god, give me emacs, make and gdb...
I've spent all day trying to debug a problem in our server code - the repro is sorta tricky, and takes time to setup, and twice today Visual Studio (2005) has gone tits-up in the middle of a debugging session.
When this happens, both debugees (client and server) die with it, and I lose all the debugger configuration (conditional breakpoints, etc. etc.)
Visual Studio has some great features - but in my experience it's too unstable to be used as a serious development environment.
When I'm debugging hard problems, the last thing I need is to have to try to figure out why my tools are failing.
Color me frustrated.
Posted by dberger at March 14, 2008 1:40 PM