Visual Studio.

Takes forever to install. Takes forever x 2 to uninstall.

Yes, I can confirm. Just unistalled after installing it yesterday and realizing immediately why I don't want that shit on my pc... Slow AF and full of shit

And times infinity to re-install

And, naturally, it's required for any decent amount of nodejs development... O.o Because reasons.

I do love it though. Once it's installed, that is.

I really don't see the hate for VS. Granted it's a pain to install/uninstall and can be slow loading projects but bar that it's better than any other IDE I've ever used...

It takes forever to open and load

FWIW the latest RC of Visual Studio improves all of these problems. Try it.

But for true eternity, try cancelling in the middle of its installation.

Well apart from the fact that it is still way better than any other IDE, Visual Studio 2017 installs much much faster and you can choose exactly what you need and what you don't :-)

@Jamoyjamie Do you know the JetBrains IDEs? Infinite times better than VS.
They currently released Project Rider, an IDE for C# with ReSharper of course ;-)

I use to have eclipse.

Totally agree. And our undergraduate program makes us use it 😑

Actually, I need to retract my last statement. Since MS were kind enough to give us a Linux subsystem in Windows, I'm now running all my nodejs commands through a genuine Linux bash terminal.

Bye bye VS. Hehe.. :)

A case in point - one of the classes we have at uni is Operating Systems. In each lab we have 90 minutes to implement a given part of a simple OS. Everything is Linux based, and most of the code is in C++. Also it is impossible to compile and run unit tests outside of the prepared Unix environment. Now me and my friend don't like Linux and love Windows. So we decided to get the OS source, work on the assignment in Visual Stusio, where we get suggestions with Intellisense and smart refactoring. We then use WinSCP to copy the modified source to the Unix environment and have a fuckthisshit.sh script that deletes the previous code (otherwise the make command just doesn't work), extracts the OS, copies the modified files, makes and runs unit tests. Using this flow we have been able to finish both first assignments in about 45 minutes, well ahead of all the other Linux-God-Vim-and-terminal-loving students who struggled to finish in time. So that's why I love VS.

@MartinZikmund Yes don. Plus one for you.

@MartinZikmund, here's another ++, if for nothing else than simply the name you guys choose for the bash script... (: