Overall Satisfaction with Visual Studio IDE
Mostly the whole group of students uses Visual Studio as their IDE for creating games. It can be used either as a standalone suite or as an IDE for other game engines.
- Debugger is superb
- Multiple plugins to address different needs
- Integration with many languages
- Ease to learn. hard to master
- The whole suite is heavy and could use some cleanup
- Setup takes a long time and dozens of dependencies are necessary
- Eclipse Luna
Visual is a well-rounded solution for all kinds of software development, be it Windows-native or other architectures. Its build steps are fully customizable and can fit different needs - from tiny embedded system to video game consoles. It facilitates development, especially due to its debugging tools, which helps tracking down problems much faster and reliably.