And I will also add this - as a software developer today you are probably thinking about learning stuff like Solr, Hadoop, CoreNLP, NLTK, Spark etc., as you try to learn more about data science and related stuff.
As you do this, I personally think that you are much better off getting the JetBrains all-in-one subscription (if you can afford it) over continuing to use Visual Studio. There are a lot of things happening on the data science front which are just that much harder to do within the MS stack.
Actually I really love the C# language, and wish there were .NET ports for Solr, Hadoop and NLP libraries etc. But it just makes more sense to get into the native ecosystems for these libraries (Java, Python etc.) with the most convenient IDEs for those languages (e.g. IntelliJ, PyCharm) and not struggle with trying to get all your NuGet ducks in a row.
As you do this, I personally think that you are much better off getting the JetBrains all-in-one subscription (if you can afford it) over continuing to use Visual Studio. There are a lot of things happening on the data science front which are just that much harder to do within the MS stack.
Actually I really love the C# language, and wish there were .NET ports for Solr, Hadoop and NLP libraries etc. But it just makes more sense to get into the native ecosystems for these libraries (Java, Python etc.) with the most convenient IDEs for those languages (e.g. IntelliJ, PyCharm) and not struggle with trying to get all your NuGet ducks in a row.