Comment by haspok
5 hours ago
I used VS6 professionally and for private business around 2000-2004, and it was still going strong then. VC++ was great.
One thing though that I still have nightmares about is Visual SourceSafe, Microsoft's idea of a source control system for small teams. It was not only terrible to use (and slow), but we regularly lost data in it due to concurrency issues.
TortoiseCVS all the way down. Nothing else came close. (this was before git and svn, kids. relax!)
Speaking of MS and source control, I have to shout out this incredibly niche channel [1] that recently covered "Microsoft Delta", a precursor and home grown effort that was eventually abandoned in favour of buying in what would become SourceSafe.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bNLp_oTuNM
> Visual SourceSafe
Ugh, instant flashbacks and not the good kind.
It was my favorite VCS ever at my first workplace where we deployed .war to prod tomcat from eclipse with one click. No tests, no PRs, no tickets. Customer would call me and I could get a change out to them within 5 minutes. Most (and only!) agile workplace I ever experienced in two decades.