I&#x27;ve been a .NET dev for over 10 years now, finally there&#x27;s an alternative to the huge, monolithic, incredibly bloated Visual Studio, which I&#x27;ve grown to hate with a passion.<p>There have been contenders over the years, monodevelop, sharpdevelop, most recently the OmniSharp plugin with atom.io. This is the first time I can realistically see myself being free from VisualStudio in a professional context.