The more I use Visual Studio the more I'm impressed by the way it outshines other development systems. The surprising thing is that I use Visual Studio for writing software on all sorts of platforms, not just Microsoft ones.
Currently, I am using VS for writing code to run on Arduino boards thanks to the Visual Micro addin.
Visual Studio can manage makefile projects easily as well as the VS solution files. This means that given the right makefile, one can edit and compile all sorts of code on the same IDE.