I'm so glad I'm not dependent on a giant piece of software to edit code in. Using a good text editor (I mostly go with Sublime Text, but also use Atom and Emacs) gives me all of the functionality that I need, while letting me work in just about any OS I want, not requiring a boatload of system resources or a slow startup time, not being really strong on one or two languages and average to poor at the rest, and being generally much more customizable. As for intellisense, there are plugins for that in many languages in these text editors, and even without, I've found that the speed at which I code is rarely more than negligibly affected by looking for name of the function I need and such.
Of course, my limited experience with development on windows has shown it to be an absolutely odious experience with regards to command-line tools (it seriously feels like the Windows community ceased working on console tools about 20 years ago), so it doesn't surprise me that developers would prefer to work in Visual Studio. Also, I'm sure it has certain advantages if one is working on a very large code-base.
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I'm so glad I'm not dependent on a giant piece of software to edit code in. Using a good text editor (I mostly go with Sublime Text, but also use Atom and Emacs) gives me all of the functionality that I need, while letting me work in just about any OS I want, not requiring a boatload of system resources or a slow startup time, not being really strong on one or two languages and average to poor at the rest, and being generally much more customizable. As for intellisense, there are plugins for that in many languages in these text editors, and even without, I've found that the speed at which I code is rarely more than negligibly affected by looking for name of the function I need and such.
Of course, my limited experience with development on windows has shown it to be an absolutely odious experience with regards to command-line tools (it seriously feels like the Windows community ceased working on console tools about 20 years ago), so it doesn't surprise me that developers would prefer to work in Visual Studio. Also, I'm sure it has certain advantages if one is working on a very large code-base.