On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 at 06:21, Chris Piker via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:

On Thursday, 24 October 2024 at 06:17:21 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:

> You are correct. If you're using all-up Visual Studio, you're
> paying for a yearly license, and these things aren't cheap (I
> have one, AMA).

Ah, didn't know that. Visual Studio is only $65/year for academic
institutions. Had no idea it was so expensive in the outside
world. I figured MS subsidized the cost to get more developers
working on Windows.

There is Visual Studio Community Edition these days, which is free.

It used to be fairly feature reduced, but today it's basically full-featured; I use Community Edition, and there's nothing at all missing compared to the Enterprise version that I care about.

So, for all intents and purposes, VS is free (for non-commercial use).