

Speaking of which, please please please just add good CMake support in a plugin or something. I can guess what a "project" is, but what on earth is a "solution"? Does a "solution" contain "projects", or the other way around? If I have a "solution", what's my "problem"? The terminology is very confusing for a newcomer. (So apparently, VS15 will be the next version of Visual Studio, the current version being VS 2015, right? Who on earth came up with this numbering scheme? It seriously confused me when I was looking this stuff up: I assumed VS15 preview was an early and now outdated release of VS2015.) I realise there's the cut-down VS15 preview (at a more reasonable 1.1GB), so hopefully the next version will be better in this regard.

Whatever it is that's taking up that space, I'm pretty sure I'm never going to need 95% of it. If I'm off the mark, blame it on my newbie-ness: Please bear in mind that these are very much initial impressions: as I said above, I've only been using it for a couple of days, after a decade of Mac and Linux. The Git/Github integration works surprisingly well, although I'm not sure why the window says "Team Explorer" on it, rather than just, y'know, "Git". Context-sensitive syntax highlighting and "intellisense" work very well too, as long as you stay within the subset of C++ they understand. Let's start with the good: the debugger seems excellent, from the little I've used of it. For reference, these days I use CLion on Mac and QtCreator on Linux, both of which I like very much.
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As it happens, after years and years of coding C++ on Unix, I had my first experience of using Visual Studio Community on Windows just three days ago.
