Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Post by kretaceous » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 2:43 PM UTC

Rider is now free for non-commercial use
jetbrains.com

Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Post by slekker » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 2:54 PM UTC

I'm learning F# and have been using VSCode. How different/better JetBrains Rider support for F# is?

Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Post by terminalbraid » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 2:56 PM UTC

This is pretty huge all around, especially with Microsoft discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022...

I'd also like to note the great integration Rider has with Godot and Unity for game development.

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Post by terminalbraid » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 2:58 PM UTC

slekker wrote: post #2

I'm learning F# and have been using VSCode. How different/better JetBrains Rider support for F# is?

Considering you get a better integrated environment rather than something designed more heavily around plugins you also get unquestionably much better refactoring tools.

One thing to note that I just learned: You cannot opt out of anonymous data collection if you use the free non-commercial license. (I'd probably still trust Jetbrains over Microsoft, but that's me)

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2024/10/24/webstorm-and-ride...

I'd definitely recommend trying it out now that it's free. Your taste may vary.

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Post by mattferderer » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 2:58 PM UTC

As a paying subscriber I love this move for the .NET community.

As a .NET dev for many years, I've noticed there have been periods of time where either Visual Studio or Rider was far better than the other. Currently, Rider is much better.

Hopefully this encourages more people to try out C# & F#. Both fantastic languages.

- Edit - Looks like Webstorm (JS/TS editor) is also free now.

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Post by alberth » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 3:00 PM UTC

What an amazing accomplishment JetBrains has done.

It's a bootstrapped, European company, doing $400M+ annually in revenue selling to developers (who are some of the most difficult buyers to convenience to pay).

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/annualreport-2023/

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Post by 0x073 » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 3:01 PM UTC

Webstorm is now also free for non commercial use

https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2024/10/24/webstorm-and-ride...

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Post by buybackoff » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

If they want to grab market share they should include dotMemory to the free offer. Basically dotUltimate without ReSharper. Otherwise free Rider users will need to install free Visual Studio for enhanced profiling.

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Post by CharlieDigital » Thu, Oct 24, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

mattferderer wrote: post #5

As a paying subscriber I love this move for the .NET community. As a .NET dev for many years, I've noticed there have been periods of time where either Visual Studio or Rider was far better than the other. Currently, Rider is much better. Hopefully this encourages more people to try out C# & F#. Both fantastic languages. - Edit - Looks like Webstorm (JS/TS editor) is also free now.

I had a Rider license for a while but just let it lapse.

I've found myself totally satisfied with just VS Code on macOS (it's come a really long way).

I'm glad that this move will possibly make .NET more accessible, but I think VSC is in a really good place with C# at the moment and shouldn't be overlooked.

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