Ok, just rebooted PC. Less than 2 seconds from clicking VS icon till the first prompt asking what do I want to do. After that again less than 2 sec to open previous project.

Mind you this is first restart of Visual Studio in however many days had passed since the last update. Hence "cold boot time" is largely irrelevant to me.

I value VS for reasons other than "cold boot time". IntelliSense and debugging features weigh way more in my decision to keep VS as my main development tool for C++.

All my C++ servers are multiplatform: Linux/Windows. Usually I develop and debug on Windows and deploy on Linux. Deployment on Linux is handled by simple script that pulls from repo, builds and runs tests. However if needed VS can deploy, compile and debug straight on remote Linux server. I use this feature sometimes.

cold boot time is such a strange metric for an IDE. Do you spend your days closing and restarting yours ?

Hot reloading could be a better metric maybe ?

When I learnt to debug remote code from my Visual Studio, I was blown away. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/debugger/remot...

>"Hot reloading could be a better metric maybe"

I have it running for weeks sometimes. My development desktop has 128GB RAM so VS just stays there. I frankly do not care about hot/cold reload time of this IDE at all even though it is very fast in my case.

>"When I learnt to debug remote code from my Visual Studio, I was blown away."

You should try VS 2022 preview. All you need is SSH access on remote comp. You do not have to deploy anything to target. VS does everything it needs