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Why would anyone install a 2015 IDE in 2024?

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If you remember installing VS2015 on a slow hard drive (not an SSD), you remember pain. The installer was huge. The "Blend for Visual Studio" feature would randomly break. And God help you if you tried to install Resharper on a 4GB RAM machine. Why would anyone install a 2015 IDE in 2024

This is a favorite power-user feature. VS 2015 introduced the ability to save and switch between custom window layouts. You could have one layout for coding (full screen code) and one for debugging (watches, locals, and call stacks visible) and switch between them instantly with a keyboard shortcut. The "Blend for Visual Studio" feature would randomly break

The rule was simple: If you are an individual developer, a student, or working in an open-source project or a small company (up to 5 users), you could use the full power of VS Pro for $0.

For C++ developers, 2015 was a renaissance. It introduced constexpr , variable templates, and a vastly improved IDE experience. The debugging tools—specifically the diagnostic tools window that showed CPU and Memory graphs in real-time—made hunting memory leaks almost enjoyable.