Comment by bob1029

> bigger company, who have the time and resources to specialize it into something which fits better into a professional market

Welcome to the central thesis for using Microsoft's stack.

If I'm getting paid money based upon the direct outcome of my work (I.e., freelance / consulting / 1099), I am taking zero chances with the tooling. $500 for a perpetual license of VS the cheapest option by miles if you value your time and sanity.

Iteration time is nice, but the debugger experience is the most important thing once you are working on problems people are actually willing to pay money to solve. Just because it's "possible" doesn't mean it is ergonomic or accessible. I don't have to exit my IDE if I want to attach to prod and run a cheeky snippet of LINQ on a collection in break mode to investigate a runtime curiosity.