This is not to say that open source does not offer high quality stuff – I have been an advocate of NHibernate for years – but only that companies that can spend money in having full time developers working on something usually benefit from that. Not all of these are free or open source, and, in general, this shows up in the quality of the tool or the features it offers. In recent years, this landscape has somewhat changed: we now have Visual Studio Code, MonoDevelop, SharpDevelop and, more recently, JetBrains Rider. Other tools existed, of course, but they were generally no match for Visual Studio. For many years, it was essentially the only tool that offered a comprehensive IDE with useful functionality that could be used for enterprise-level. In the beginning there was Visual Studio.
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