Even though I am a sublime user for some tasks I still use Visual Studio. I have to say that Visual Studio actually has a very fast start-up time -- thus it is a bit of a myth that IDEs have to start slow.
I just ran 2008 and 2012 and the second time they load (I prewarmed the caches), they load in about 1 second. With a cold cache 2008 takes 2 seconds although 2012 seems to take 15 seconds (which is slow.)
(Tested on a fairly high end machine, you results may differ.)
I opened 2012 and 2013 and they're almost instant on my machine(high end machine). Opening my main solution for work is roughly 3minutes on same machine, which would be nice if it could be done faster, but that's not going to happen I suppose.
Whoa, 3 minutes? Is that also from an SSD? Our primary C++ solution in VS (CMake generated) has 35 projects and somewhere between 500 to 1000 source files and it only takes about 10 seconds to open.
I just ran 2008 and 2012 and the second time they load (I prewarmed the caches), they load in about 1 second. With a cold cache 2008 takes 2 seconds although 2012 seems to take 15 seconds (which is slow.)
(Tested on a fairly high end machine, you results may differ.)