>> I've yet to see an IDE that isn't horribly slow, bloated and 
>> inflexible. I guess in that respect VS is no worse than any other IDE.
> 
> Maybe it's your computer then? :-)
> 
> VS works perfectly fast enough here thank you... exactly how can an IDE 
> be horribly slow? You mean when compiling or starting up or what?

At uni, we used both Borland JBuilder and VisualStudio J++. Both of them 
were ludicrously slow. Stuff like

- Start the program: 45 seconds.
- Wait for autocomplete to appear: 20 seconds.
- Compile something: 30 seconds.

Both also had a nasty habit of the metadata not matching the source 
code. Like, open a file, add a new method, and VS seems not to "know 
about it" until you close and reopen VS. (You'd hope that just saving 
the file would be enough. No. Maybe just compiling it then? No.)

If you decide you want to rename a class... forget it. This confuses VS 
beyond belief. Trying to add source files that weren't created using VS 
is near impossible. Then VS insists on trying to incorrectly format your 
code (e.g., put the open bracket on the same line as the method 
declaration, rather than the line below it).

Trying to tell it which file is the runnable program is unecessarily 
difficult. You had to jump through hoops to make it create an empty 
project rather than a project already stuffed with boilerplate code you 
don't need or want.

Basically, every single aspect of it was annoying, inflexible and 
overcomplicated.

I will say one thing though: It did manage to compile recursive classes, 
which Sun's JDK could only do with special trickery.

I imagine on today's computers it's probably not quite so slow, but I 
doubt it's become any less inflexible.

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