I couldn&#x27;t disagree more, VisualStudio is a glorified text editor - there is absolutely no reason for its monumental system requirements. Microsoft have completely forgotten about the core functionality of the product - programmers writing code. Instead they&#x27;ve bloated the thing down with many, many &#x27;features&#x27; which only detract from that core functionality.<p>If you look at something like Atom with the Omnisharp plugin, it achieves everything I need from VisualStudio with a tiny fraction of the resources. Then again, if you&#x27;re one of these programmers who write more code by dragging &amp; dropping around a UI than actually typing (Microsoft has created a whole generation of these coders), then you probably need a lot of the VisualStudio bloat.