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Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Post by jonathanlydall »

eterm wrote: post #101
spuz wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the difference between Rider and Resharper?

VS + Resharper is painfully slow. Rider is refreshingly fast.

I recently upgraded my laptop and finally VS with Resharper is blazingly fast.

My old laptop was a an 8th gen i7 with SSD and 32GB of RAM.

New one is a 13th gen i7 with an NVMe and 64GB of RAM.

I suspect the biggest difference is the NVMe. It probably also helps that I’m using Windows 11’s Dev Drive where I’ve enabled all the policies mentioned in their docs to minimise the impact of Windows Defender.

And finally, so much RAM means Windows gets to keep a lot of my working files cached.

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Post by corytheboyd »

guytv wrote: post #168
mattlondon wrote: post #153

Genuine question with an open mind: why would I use this and not vscode? I know people complain about lag in vscode but I have personally never experienced/noticed any. So with that in mind what does rider give that vscode cannot?

Superior: * Debugging * Refactoring

Specifically, out of the box, these things work, and work exceptionally well. In my experience you can get 80% of the way there in VSCode, but it requires compromise and time, which I’m personally willing to throw money at to make go away.

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Post by microflash »

p0w3n3d wrote: post #192

Regarding free non-commercial use in Jetbrains you need to accept that you'll get checked (not specified how, but I guess they will scrape your HDD? Or what? It’s also important to note that if you’re using a non-commercial license, you cannot opt out of the collection of anonymous usage statistics. This is similar to our Early Access Program (where statistics is opt-out) and in compliance with our Privacy Policy

I wish they would allow opt-out for people who have a subscription active on one of the other Jetbrains products.

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Post by talldayo »

NoboruWataya wrote: post #154
talldayo wrote: post #125

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They also pulled the plug on free support for their Rust plugin which really upset me. Jetbrains is intent on making you pay before you get IDE functionality; I'd rather use VS Code or Zed these days.

RustRover is free for non-commercial use though? I liked the look of Zed when I first tried it out, but I read that it seems to have a strong cloud/AI focus which I don't want or need. I have started investing a bit of time in getting Vim working with all the bells and whistles and now it's a decent fallback when I can't use a JetBrains IDE for whatever reason.

I'll just be honest, I don't like Zed at all. I much preferred Atom when it was a thing, and I mostly use Zed begrudgingly because the other graphical editors tend to get sluggish.

My preferred IDE was what Jetbrains had before with IDEA - you could plug in basic support for the languages you want and edit as you go. I don't want to set up a superheavy environment with all the bells and whistles, I want Intellisense and tree-sitter in a relatively zippy interface. That was what Jetbrains offered before, and it's what I can't have anymore.

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Post by einpoklum »

lolinder wrote: post #44
zorgmonkey wrote: post #41

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My understanding is they relocated the developers who were in Russia

Correct, though they also lost some who were not willing to relocate.

That's really too bad, and not fair to the Russian developers. More 'collateral damage' from the NATO-Russia conflict.

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Post by ohnoesjmr »

klik99 wrote: post #190
danhau wrote: post #176

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I had no idea Rider supported C++. My impression was that it is for .NET only. How does it compare to CLion?

Yeah they originally had a separate branch "Rider Unreal" but now it's part of Rider, C++ support seems mostly the same across both, except for project support. If IIRC Rider doesn't support CMake projects, but it does support vsproj projects, so if you generate vs files from cmake it'll load fine, but probably better to use CLion for any non-UE projects if using C++. I guess they're seeing it as .NET/GameDev IDE. Ho…

I use both Rider (for mixed c++/c#) projects and CLion for C++ only.

I feel that Rider is somehow better than CLion at c++, even after CLion Nova (Intellisense based on Resharper backend) became a thing.

One difference is that I write boost::asio in CLion, and just vanilla C++ in Rider, and before Nova it was completely unusable with async code, now it's usable with async code, but after a few days of running the editor I end up with fatal IDE errors for CLion, and never for Rider.

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Post by lolinder »

einpoklum wrote: post #217
lolinder wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Correct, though they also lost some who were not willing to relocate.

That's really too bad, and not fair to the Russian developers. More 'collateral damage' from the NATO-Russia conflict.

Yeah, it sucks that Putin decided to invade a sovereign nation that was home to a bunch of JetBrains employees.

His war has turned the world upside down in a lot of ways, and I really do feel for the Russians and Ukrainians who he's dragged down with him. I have coworkers who regularly have to take shelter from his bombing campaigns.

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Post by ohnoesjmr »

mattferderer wrote: post #21
CharlieDigital wrote: post #9

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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.

VS Code is really good at certain things but it struggles on larger projects & doesn't have near the advanced features. It's a very good choice though for a lot of projects. It's also a great way to try out C#. It has some amazing extensions for certain tasks too.

I work on a almost 20 year old C# monolith, with 1000+ projects per solution. It doesn't even load in VS or VSC. Rider needs 16GB of ram, but manages to open it. I try to never close the IDE, as it takes 30mins to open.
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