I'm also concerned that MS has spent a lot of time moving workloads out of process to resolve the memory issues at the cost of speed and reliability. But that means none of the existing extensions we have will work anymore which means a likely long wait for extension authors to update (if they ever do). I'm sure a lot of people will be happy with the 64-bit VS version.Many were also concerned with VS extensions that would need to be updated. Here's a sample of what readers had to say.Ĭomments on this were primarily of 'what took so long' nature. Other hot topics were support (or perceived lack thereof) of Azure DevOps, along with Linux, the legacy. Those three sites alone combined for more than 700 comments (and counting as this is being written). The 64-bit surprise was a leading topic of developer discussion in comments to the announcement post as well as on the Reddit and Hacker News developer-oriented forums. VS 2022 was introduced April 19, with Microsoft promising a leaner, faster and 64-bit IDE.

Based only on a sneak peek of an upcoming preview, hundreds of developers have weighed in with strong opinions on what's coming with the milestone Visual Studio 2022 release.

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