I work everyday writing code for iOS apps using VS. I write code and compile, run unit tests, etc... in VS. I then use the same project and source files, load them into MonoDevelop and compile using MonoTouch on my Mac to generate native apps.

This is not true. You _can_ develop programs that only work on Windows, but you can also choose your technologies carefully and make .NET programs that work on Mono. you can code stuff targeting other languages and so on.

It's developer's choice whether or not to code portable.

So...you're wrong on most accounts. VS 2010 is plenty fast and plenty of people build plenty of cross platform apps and web apps using Visual Studio.

Honestly, I think you should really just consider checking your attitude and your politics at the door because hating Microsoft and all that "ghastly" proprietary software is just so passe. It's boring and nobody cares that you think proprietary software is evil.

Right, except nothing that I said conveyed any sort of gushing "love" for Microsoft or proprietary versus any other software.

Listing "it's proprietary" immediately before "it's slow" OTOH? Yeah, it's pretty telling where that comment is coming from.

If you don't like it, why come out of your way to make a negative comment about it unless you're just being a hater?

> If you don't like it, why come out of your way to make a negative comment about it unless you're just being a hater?

Intellectual honesty cannot coexist alongside zealotry.