Visual C++ 6 was the first C(++) compiler I used. I'm fairly certain it had auto completion (Intellisense).
Casey Muratori would point out the debugger ran faster on hardware from the era than modern versions run on today's hardware, though I don't have a link to the side–by–side video comparison.
Edit: Casey Muratori showing off the speed of visual studio 6 on a Pentium something after ranting about it: Jump to 36:08 in https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U — earlier section of the video is how it is today (or when the video was made)
The VS debugger got an order of magnitude slower in the transition from VS6 to Visual Studio .NET. It's been sped up a bit but is still nowhere near as fast as the VS6 debugger at responding to step commands, debug output, or conditional breakpoints. In VS.NET you could be waiting as long as a full second on a contemporary dev machine for the debugger to finish stepping forward one line.
Funny thing is that at the time, I was lamenting how much slower VC6 was than VC4. Macro playback, for instance, got much slower in VC6. It's all relative.
absolutely! When launching my editor today, it phones home, it checks location, it does everything that an editor SHOULDN'T DO. Not to mention the extensions...
Software today is a horrible bloated mess on top of horrible bloated messes.