For years, due to the nature of C# projects, C# developers were confined to the Visual Studio as their only IDE, and Windows as their only development OS. Recently, community-driven initiatives such as OmniSharp or scriptcs, have helped developers shrug off the VS chains, and liberate themselves - to develop C# in any editor, on any platform. On top of that, changes in .NET itself, mainly by the introduction of the Roslyn compiler,
ASP.NET 5 and KLR, further facilitate non-Visual Studio scenarios by simplifying the project system and dependency management.
In this talk we'll see how lightweight C# experience can be, and why you don't really need Visual Studio to be very productive.
