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Microsoft gamifies Visual Studio with achievements
Microsoft has added gamification elements to its Visual Studio development tools, enabling developers to unlock achievements and compete on leaderboards to see who writes the most sophisticated code. The Visual Studio Achievements plug-in, which has launched as an open beta, awards users with badges based on the code that they write, and the features of Visual Studio that are used. Microsoft software development engineer Karsten Januszewski explained that the new plug-in is “intended to be …
