My answer: probably, but I want to flag a real gap in the evidence before I make that case. Across what I pulled, no reviewer framed their review around C/C++ as their primary use case, most reviewers discuss Visual Studio's broader multi-language value (.NET, C#, Python, web), so what follows is general Visual Studio ROI, not C/C++-specific ROI.
With that caveat, here's what I found. On value, a founder and CTO told me "the licensing costs for the enterprise edition are quite high for smaller teams," while a freelancer called the pricing "decent" overall. On productivity, one reviewer told me switching to Visual Studio from terminal-based code building "was about efficiency, it saved us hours of headaches," and multiple reviewers cite IntelliSense and integrated debugging collectively cutting development time.
My read: if your team is already inside the Visual Studio ecosystem for other languages, the C/C++ tooling rides along at no extra cost of context-switching, and the debugging depth I've seen across other questions in this batch backs that up. If C/C++ is your only reason to adopt it, I'd weigh the enterprise licensing cost against a lighter option like Eclipse or Code::Blocks first.
Is your team evaluating Visual Studio specifically for C/C++, or is it already your primary IDE for other languages?
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