Re: "There is nothing to touch Visual Studio"
Qt Creator is also considerably better than Visual Studio.
Infinitely better if you want to go cross-platform, whether Qt or pure C++. (Kits are awesome)
The MS C++ compiler is great for Windows, but only Windows.
Pretty much every developer knows that Windows is the wrong OS for IoT - too expensive in terms of hardware, development tools and per-unit licence costs.
Presumably this is MS' attempt to change that, but unless they become free they will fail.
IoT is low margin, high volume. That's the point!
I can do embedded Linux and RTX development for the cost of the hardware alone, and while I'm happy to pay extra for developer support, the key feature is that the resulting product has a zero cost licence.
For a device that has a total hardware cost of under $30, a $50 licence is laughable, and even $5 is unrealistic.
Enclosure or Windows? I pick enclosure.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
