Can you run MS' VisualStudio natively on Linux now? If not, then it's probably worth placing a disclaimer in the article that you have to sacrifice your OS freedom in order to use it. Not so with the others (all of which run natively on Linux).
Great to see this article - I've been struck by this apparent contradiction in many communities, which promote "open" while requiring community members to adopt proprietary (closed) tools in order to participate... I lean towards adopting open tools from the ground up, *where possible*. I also think there's an emerging axiom (feel free to contest this, I'd like to hear arguments to the contrary): "Expedience is the enemy of principle". I think that choosing closed to boost open is a bit hypocritical. (and, for the record, we make extensive use of FOSS tools like OnlineGroups.net, Rocket.Chat, Wekan and Kanboard, Gitlab, and others - going "open" with your tooling is *not* a step down.)
Can you run MS' VisualStudio natively on Linux now? If not, then it's probably worth placing a disclaimer in the article that you have to sacrifice your OS freedom in order to use it. Not so with the others (all of which run natively on Linux).