&gt; This will have to be very good to be better than Visual Studio on Windows.<p>Having worked with VS for many years, things not so glorious in my opinion. The main criticism is an increasing lack of stability and error prone refactoring. I&#x27;ve basically given up on automatic renaming with VS2015. The IDE crashes more often as it should, especially during debugging.<p>Furthermore the solution&#x2F;project-file concept (instead of using just folders to organize projects) is ancient and a real PITA when working in a team repository. I understand that this will hopefully be better in the future with .NET Core.<p>Another thing are licensing issues, which is really a uprising problem at MS (this is also the case for other MS products). You&#x27;re not allowed to open your IDE when the license - falsely - expired.<p>I really enjoy working in VS code nowadays, which seems to be the  more future oriented product.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, VS is still a solid IDE, but not as stellar as often claimed in my opinion. As others already said, competition is a good thing.