Visual Studio 2010 has long been announced as a release where a lot of focus would go to the actual performance of the product. As most of you probably know, Visual Studio 2008 is already quite slow when working with large solutions. I really hoped that Visual Studio 2010 would solve that problem, so i was already quite worried when reports first came out that VS 2010 would be using WPF.
I've avoided the beta releases of VS 2010, and whenever i saw someone demo it i cringed when i saw how slow it reacted, even while writing code. And now i just read this post from one of the people in charge of Visual Studio 2010. Reading that post just sends chills down my spine. While they seem to be actively working on improving the performance of VS 2010, i think it's very late in the product cycle for news like this to come out. With only about 3 months left before the release, i really wonder whether they can still deliver on their promise of a fast Visual Studio, and i certainly hope that late performance improvements don't cause any annoying bugs.
Oh well, if it turns out to be a crappy Visual Studio release, we only have to wait 2 or 3 more years before they'll fix it, right? Right? Guys?
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