Has added in IDE achievements... no REALLY. I just have to say MS just got a big thumbs up from me getting kids to learn coding will be much easier now "Hell yeah 'potty mouth'"

WTF???

This is quite old 'news', the unofficial extension has been available for a long time now. This is just 'officialization', I guess.

That's beautifully silly and/or brilliant. I love it.

Seriously, well-implemented achievements could do wonders to productivity in many fields. Until it becomes a mainstream HR tool and all goes to hell, that is.

Hah, yea. :D

Indeed, I'm not sure one should encourage single-character names for anything beyond simple counters. Or using goto.

In all honesty VS is probably the single best IDE out there if all MS software was as good as VS their monopoly would be complete tbh notice those are 0 point achieves (basicly i messed up achieves)

Yeah, but you just know an OCD coder will try hitting them all in a single application (hopefully not one I'll be using).

if your that nuts about collecting you'd likely make a junk program that does them all. But don't insult GOTO thats a damn useful command at times

I won't comment on that as I haven't used it, but you're not the first person that's said that. I tend not to code anything substantial enough to need more than vi and a couple terminal windows.

In general I've found that MS products that aren't Office, Windows or Exchange are significantly better than those products are. I actually like MS Money back when I used it, and historically their hardware was quite good, just as long as you avoided the designed for Windows bullshit items.
As long as you don't mind being eaten by a raptor, I'm sure it's fine.

Personally, I have a low grade PTSD like condition from BASIC and being unable to get programs to run because it didn't function properly. AFAIK all modern programming languages have safer alternatives than GOTO that can be used to avoid that.

Yeah, I'm quite certain we won't be allowed to install this at work (I hope). It would tempt entirely too many people to be, shall we say, a tad "creative" in their solutions.

It depends on the level of exception handling your using if your strapped for space and using none GOTO is a life saver remember JMP is a goto in assembler it's basicly every other instruction in assembler ;)

As for VS give it a try you can still get express for nothing iirc
/me contacts your boss about how great an extension it would be to add ;)

These are actually pretty funny. The "Job Security" one is hilarious.
Thinking back to BASIC and only having 1 or 2 character variables... fun times.

Yes, because they've added constructs to the language in order to work around the fact that they don't have GOTO. Java added loop labels as a way to break out of outer loops from an inner loop (about the only "valid" reason for a goto). I don't think C# or C++ do, but then they have goto which you must either use or restructure your code in ways that might not be as easy-to-read.

That said, GOTO should be completely avoided.

at last count the Linux kernal had over 90k goto's do not generalise. GOTO it's very handy in baremetal coding.