It is hard for me to compare. Last time I opened Visual Studio was like 5 years ago. This plugin would actually not try to compete with VS, as this thing is a monster and this plugin is a hobby project. :)

Originally I wanted to have some lightweight autocompletion for Linux and have added Windows and OSX support because people were trying to use it.

What you say about using VS to manage all compilation and project dependencies sounds really nice and logical, but unfortunately I have no knowledge whatsoever about how VS does this, so I'm not sure I can do this alone. However, I would love to discuss it should anyone have any nice ideas.