Re: [Interest] MSVC not-the-latest: are you using it? why?

2023-01-25 Thread Adam Light
On Tue, Jan 24, 2023 at 4:41 PM Thiago Macieira wrote: > > Ah, interesting. I'd completely forgotten Visual Studio is a paid product > (who > had the bright idea of charging for the ability to develop software for a > given OS? Don't they want to enrich said OS with more software?). I only > use

Re: [Interest] MSVC not-the-latest: are you using it? why?

2023-01-25 Thread Konrad Rosenbaum
Hi, On 25/01/2023 14:44, Adam Light wrote: What I also didn't know is that if you've purchased the licence for a given VS, you're not entitled to the upgrade to the next. I know this is how it used to be with Microsoft Office back in the 90s and even the old Visual Studi

Re: [Interest] MSVC not-the-latest: are you using it? why?

2023-01-25 Thread Michael Jackson
Actually, on macOS, XCode is specifically tied to a version of macOS. There is a short period of time where a version of Xcode will overlap 2 versions of macOS (usually the current and one version back). So for me, still back on macOS Catalina (out of choice) I use Xcode 12.4 which also works on

Re: [Interest] MSVC not-the-latest: are you using it? why?

2023-01-25 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Wednesday, 25 January 2023 08:33:59 PST Michael Jackson wrote: > Like someone else said, it becomes inertia. Our tools work on a daily basis > and any interruption to those tools becomes a productivity issue. Small > productivity losses I can handle, losing multiple days to an "upgrade" just > i