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Visual Studio does cost thousands for some versions.

And yeah. It certainly is a better tool than Xcode.




Enterprise is $6000 for the first year, then $2000/yr, but the main thing is it’s a perpetual license and includes (also perpetual) licenses for all MSDN downloads going right back to Windows 3.11 and QBASIC for DOS.

Apple don’t even let you downgrade iOS on your own devices.

Compare and contrast.




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