VisualStudio Community Edition

[ericw]

There's a new VS Community Edition out at: http://www.visualstudio.com/

This is awesome news IMO - it has the profiler, static analysis, and plugin support that were previously only in the expensive editions or in time-limited trials.

[frag.machine]

Yeah, also .NET (argh) went open source under the MIT license.

[Barnes]

support plugins? very nice

[revelator]

Heh guess the mono folks would have a love hate feeling about NET going opensource all that work to make something like NET on linux and now they have the real thing just needs porting i guess

[frag.machine]

[revelator]

One could hope that they finally learned that its not a war still plenty of opportunities to make a buck to keep your company going just by offering special stuff as addons.
Was also word that the next windows would be free to use, not sure if they still support this idea but i salute it if they do .
Recently downloaded the technology preview though i havent installed it yet i hear it brings the best of win7 and win8 together.

[revelator]

Mono while a bit buggy at times had some nice tools though but i guess they can still be ported to the new framework
I havent used it that much i must agree as its a pain in the butt to compile on windows, and i guess they would still have the need to interface it with GTK on linux so it might be some time before we see the new version.

[qbism]

One of the counter-arguments to the safety of managed languages like Java or C# was that the compilers were written in old-fashioned C or C++. But peeking briefly at C# code http://source.roslyn.codeplex.com, looks like the C# compiler is C#.

[revelator]

pretty much 90% of mono is C# rest is just the interface between various api's needed for functionality, i guess NET Framework itself is also built like this.