Visual Studio 2026 Released
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- News link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/11/11/2213205/visual-studio-2026-released
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> Microsoft has [2]released Visual Studio 2026, the first major version of their flagship compiler in almost four years. Release notes are available [3]here . The compiler has also been updated, including improved (but not yet 100%) [4]C++23 core language and [5]standard library implementations.
[1] https://slashdot.org/~Dave+Knott
[2] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/whats-new-for-cpp-developers-in-visual-studio-2026-version-18-0/
[3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2026/release-notes
[4] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/c-language-updates-in-msvc-build-tools-v14-50/
[5] https://github.com/microsoft/STL/wiki/Changelog#msvc-build-tools-1450
Visual Studio is a great IDE, but... (Score:3)
Not a fan of Microsoft, but Visual Studio has made a ton of improvements over the past few years, including this release.
Unfortunately they've fucked Windows so badly recently, and JetBrains has made their IDE free for non-commercial use (And far cheaper for commercial licenses than MSDN) that myself and a ton of other .Net devs are moving off of Windows completely and won't be getting to use this new version.
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Based on their history, Windows 12 will be decent*, but then they'll shit the bed again when they try to get everyone to upgrade to Windows 13. I don't know why they do it this way, but it's been a consistent trend for decades now.
* For a Microsoft product.
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It's different now though. The alternating good/bad Windows releases used to be the core of the system was good or bad. Windows 11 is pretty good though. What's made it bad is shitty choices that Microsoft is making trying to squeeze money out of users. Ideas like their Recall AI crap they keep rolling out. Overwriting system settings with every update. Why do I have ads on my "Professional" edition for xbox crap? Why in the ever loving fuck does the built-in solitaire game now require a recurring subscript
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"Windows 12 will be decent" - Nope. The greed train has left the station. MS got a taste of monetizing their user base. Shit's here to stay now.
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Yeah I used to have the MSDN subscription where you'd get binders full of CDs every quarter.
Visual Studio Community is free though for non-commercial use, and commercial use as long as you're under a certain annual revenue (Something like $1.5 million I think?). I'm sure the volume licensing that most shops use is far less than $500/month.
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I have used Jetbrains Rider now for the past 7 years and I can definitely recommend it (and I pay for it as well). I switched because I moved to Mac for .Net development, and really hated Microsofts .Net story for VSCode - and since switching to Rider, I haven't found myself wanting Visual Studio at all.
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Curious what Mac you're using? I'm getting a new personal laptop somewhat soon, and the M5 chips look really nice. How much RAM do you have? I've currently got an M1 mini with 8GB of RAM that works pretty well but it tends to start bogging down when using containers and having a bunch of youtube tabs open. I'm not sure how much of the Apple Tax on memory I need/want to spend.
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Get as much memory as you can. I think memory is more important than the processor.
Did the processing recently. For only $7000 or so, you can max out the best laptop with 128GB of RAM and 8TB of storage. That's the way to fly!!
For us non-big-spenders, you can get something decent for under $3000.
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> Get as much memory as you can. I think memory is more important than the processor.
Memory is absolutely more important. Upgrade the RAM at build-to-order time and the Mac will run well for 7 or 8 years until they stop upgrading macOS on that model.
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Over the years I have used as my main development machine:
* 2011 17" Macbook Pro with 8GB RAM
* 2016 iMac with 8 cores and 32GB RAM (with 2 additional 4K screens)
* M3 Max 14" Macbook Pro with 36GB RAM (and an additional 4K screen)
* M4 Max 16" Macbook Pro with 48GB RAM (and an Apple Studio screen)
I havent really ever run into a resource issue - I had to retire the iMac just last month because the screen was ghosting, but it was still perfectly usable for development purposes right up to that point (ie I never
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I've been on a Mac for a while, and tried Visual Studio for Mac. What a friggin train wreck. I've been using VSCode and gotten used to its quirks, but I might need to give Rider a look. Thanks for the reminder it exists.
Meanwhile slashdot has released popup ads (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyone else noticed these? I thought popup ads had disappeared years ago because they are so annoying, but apparently not. Although I'd rather have these ads than those pernicious and malicious html-load.com scripts running on this site.
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Mango DB? Yeah I got that.
Want to try out the new Visual Studio 2026, but worried its full of AI crap. Still rocking VS 2019.
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VS26 is surprisingly good. There is a ton of AI crap in it, but you can completely turn it all off. VS26 runs noticeably better on my machine than VS22 did, I've been using the preview version for a while now without issue in my day job. Like I mentioned though, we're migrating away from Windows altogether now that .Net runs well in Linux and there are good cross-platform IDEs available.
Re:Meanwhile slashdot has released popup ads (Score:4, Informative)
Slashdot has progressively got shitter over the past decade, and its noticable that that also correlates to a decline in the number of comments being left on stories.... The community has shrunk.
Slashdot used to allow me to give them money to avoid ads, but they took that away - so I have no moral or ethical issue with blocking ads on this site. Especially as they also used to provide an option to hide ads for long term users - which they started to ignore for specific ads, and then got rid of entirely.
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Ok, so it's not just me. I finally got rid it by flagging the crap with uBlock. Every once in a while a little black box still appears in the lower right hand corner though. This is the first pop-up I have seen in well over 15 years now, maybe longer.
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> Anyone else noticed these?
[1]https://github.com/dhowe/AdNau... [github.com]
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[1] https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam