[eadmund]

> I have never once thought Visual Studio needs some way to edit its own source code on the fly... whats [sic] the actual use case?

Writing Visual Studio, for example. Debugging Visual Studio. Extending Visual Studio in more than the ways it has already provided.

It means not being constrained to do only those things someone else had seen fit to permit you to do. It means freedom.

[skeezyjefferson]

> Extending Visual Studio in more than the ways it has already provided....It means freedom.

if youre able to edit the source code of a program, youre probably a programmer. you already had the freedom. and that can be done with git and the offline source code. its not freedom its convenience if anything