Monday, July 26, 2004
Visual Studio 2005 Express
This is pretty cool. It looks like Microsoft has finally realized that Visual Studios is just plain overkill for the hobby and student programmers. They’ve created stripped down versions of all their language products.
I’m really happy to see this. Although I have no problems using Visual Studio Professional I know it is rather complex and overwhelming for most people. The hobby or student programmer just wants a simple IDE Integrate Development Environment) and compiler for their language. Something they can start up and get coding without become confused and bewildered with all sorts of mostly useless junk.
They’re still in beta so not much is known but it appears the Express Editions will be very small in size and features so that they could be downloaded and while not free will probably be very cheap. These are the two things I would expect being designed for hobbyist. A hobbyist doesn’t want to have to build a top of the line computer in order to do development and they sure don’t want to have to spend hundreds of dollars on development tools.
Check out the website and read up. These might be a good choice for those interested in playing with software development without going into it full bore.
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