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Project Rider – A C# IDE

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Re: Project Rider – A C# IDE

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Visual Studio is one of the best IDE out there, and it is likely to remain better than Rider for at least a while. It surely "comes close" ;)

VS is nice and powerful, but ironically it needs Resharper to match a JetBrains IDE like IntelliJ for autocompletion/tooltips/navigation, which is severly lacking in Visual Studio. That's one objection. The other problem with Visual Studio is that it's a beast. It takes multiple gigs of drive space (which of course suddenly became a problem when everyone's disks shrunk from 1TB to 128GB over night a couple of years a…

I like Resharper a lot, but I do found that a lot of the features I use in Resharper are baked right into VS. For example, in Resharper Ctrl + T navigates to a symbol by name. That is Ctrl + , in VS.

The code analysis/improvements/suggestions is definitely great though, at least for a while.

Re: Project Rider – A C# IDE

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post #97

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I have 16GB of RAM on my work machine and if I leave two instances of Visual Studio running the machine saturates after half a day. Plus even they admit to the slowness[0]. But regardless I bet a certain core demographic of Resharper users are never going to admit to a problems (slowness/lag/slow startup/RAM usage/memory leaks). [0] https://confluence.jetbrains.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageI...

If this new IDE (which uses the same Resharper codebase) ends up being a lot faster than VS then we'll know where the bottleneck is.

Well an IDE with less features is going to be faster than VS, that isn't a question. Just see Sublime Text, insanely fast until you start adding extensions and it gradually gets slower and slower.

But Resharper is an absolute hog. For as slow as Visual Studio can be, it quadruples it in all categories. Just look in this thread, you can see dozens of people saying the same thing: Resharper has massive performance problems.

Re: Project Rider – A C# IDE

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Visual Studio is one of the best IDE out there, and it is likely to remain better than Rider for at least a while. It surely "comes close" ;)

Last time I used VS, I was surprised by the lack of some pretty basic features, such as Ctrl+click navigation (there is a plugin for that though), or a quick way to show formatted function documentation in a popup.

To show the documentation you literally just hover over a symbol

Re: Project Rider – A C# IDE

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I think the reason most people don't notice this is because developers on average have better computer hardware. Anyone who uses a laptop for on-the-go development on the other hand gets hit with these problems front-on. In college, I assumed everyone loved Visual Studios just because everyone was told to use it and there were, in reality, no other options. I hope that in the next few years, with the open sourcing of…

Any IDE that wants to challenge VS has an uphill battle in what concerns: - GUI editors - Parallel code debugging - GPU debugging - Enterprise code navigation - Edit-and-continue - Debugging native code generated for .NET applications - Mixed language debugging - GUI Profiler - Code Profiler Just a few items on the top of my head.

Don't forget the image editor.

Re: Project Rider – A C# IDE

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How long is it before JetBrains comes out with something more like Eclipse or Atom? You have IntelliJ, PyCharm, RubyMine, CLion, and now this. That's excluding plugins for other IDEs. All of their IDEs basically look and feel the same. It seems like a ripe opportunity to make a single, extensible IDE that isn't quite so ugly as Eclipse but isn't quite so barebones as Atom that then just has different chunks of suppor…

It already exists and is called the Intellij Platform. It's open source and the base for all Jetbrains IDEs, see:

* http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983889 * https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/...

Re: Project Rider – A C# IDE

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JetBrains is deadly. IntelliJ IDEA is simply the best tool I've ever used for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and PostgreSQL. Incredibly intuitive and it does it all. It's what Photoshop is for designers. This immediately gets me stoked for doing my Unity C# development with this. * Edit. Initially thought this was an entirely new IDE, and not just a plugin. Less excited, but certainly worth a look.

Sounds like its a branch of the IntelliJ IDEA codebase

I guess it's just based on the Intellij Platform which is open source and also serves as the base for other Jetbrains IDEs like Webstorm or Pycharm:

- http://www.jetbrains.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=983889 - https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/tree/master/...

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