Re: Speed

I'll send your list to Ballmer. :)

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Mike <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Just make it faster please.  What of any interest has been added since
> 2003?
>
> Everything new added to C# was already better in JavaScript and other
> languages, and while things like generics are good, they are so very noisy
> and ugly in C#.  Everything new added to ASP.NET <http://asp.net/> was
> overshadowed by Ajax.  Everything new added to VS was overshadowed by
> ReSharper and others.
>
> Some new things are good.  The addition of F#, Ruby, and Python to the VS
> world is exciting, though personally I'd give a much higher priority to
> adding a little intellisense and refactoring support for JavaScript, since
> that's what we have immediate need for.  MVC is good.
>
> If you really want to give us new stuff, then give us something exciting,
> like the iPhone!  We want a way to send our own ideas out into the mobile
> world, and maybe even make some coin.
>
> And just get rid of IE, entirely.  I'm serious, it's an active negative for
> the entire planet.
>
>  Mike
>
>
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Brad Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>
>>  "Make it faster" or "add new features"?
>>
>> Pick one. :)
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Joe O'Leary <[email protected]>wrote:
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>>>  Unfortunately VS2008 is a dog, even on fast machines, IMO.  Worse than
>>> 2005 which was worse than 2003.  I really wish they would improve the
>>> performance for once.  If the new one is changing a lot, it is probably
>>> going to be an even bigger dog
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> >From: Anna-Jayne Metcalfe <[email protected]>
>>> >Sent: Jul 10, 2009 9:33 PM
>>> >To: [email protected]
>>> >Subject: RE: [OT] Speed
>>> >
>>> >Hi Mike,
>>> >
>>> >> Is Windows 7 going to be faster than XP?  Is VS 2010 going to be
>>> faster
>>> >than the preceding versions?  I'm seeing very positive reviews of these
>>> new
>>> >products, but nobody ever talks about speed, which is the only thing I
>>> care
>>> >about.
>>> >
>>> >If our testing is anything to go by, Win7 is comparable to XP in
>>> performance
>>> >and if other reports are accurate is certainly capable of running on a
>>> >smaller footprint than Vista. It's certainly worth a look if you're
>>> bringing
>>> >in new machines (I'm not a fan of OS upgrades).
>>> >
>>> >VS2010 is another matter. The verdict is not yet in on the new WPF based
>>> >editor, but my gut feeling (and based on what I've seen from beta
>>> >installations) I'd say that VS2010 is going to have a significantly
>>> bigger
>>> >footprint than VS2008, and the volume of change in this release may have
>>> >some consequences in the RTM.
>>> >
>>> >It has always seemed to me that Visual Studio releases follow a two-step
>>> >pattern - one release where they try to change too much (VS5, VS2002,
>>> >VS2005) followed by which consolidates the changes of the previous
>>> release
>>> >(VS6, VS2003, VS2008). My instincts tell me that VS2010 may
>>> (unfortunately)
>>> >be in the former camp. The plus side of that is of course that the next
>>> >release after VS2010 - call it VS2012 for now - will probably be a good
>>> one.
>>> >
>>> >I can't help with Silverlight etc. I'm afraid - I'm a native C++ dev.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >Cheers,
>>> >
>>> >       Anna x
>>> >
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