This is all good and well and stuff, but this requires a lot of money to put into, to just get a very basic feature of an IDE to work. TBH, i don’t need a fancy IDE. All I really want is an IDE with a good Project Explorer and working Auto Completion. I dont work in the gaming industrie, even though I might want to get into it in the future. I dont have the money, otherwise I would probably just spend it, if it works good.
As far as UE4 being dependend on VS goes:
The only thing i see is, that it creates VS Solutions. When there are IDEs that can use those solutions just like VS does, I dont see any Problems. Creating new files with the UE Editor should still work. You would just have to reload your IDE to get the new files. All I want is a working intellsense without spenind 4 Digit Amounts on it. I might just try arround a bit by myself.