There are a few privately owned companies that amaze me: JetBrains, Valve among the top. Somehow they have a much better value/user and make reasonable decisions: counter intuitive to investors/shareholders but insanely intuitive to their users. I am sure the public market has made the general public reap the rewards of large companies (kudos!) but some of the privately owned companies are absolutely kicking ass to s…
Rider is now free for non-commercial use
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#143I wish Jetbrains could save me from Xcode. Please.
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#144This 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.
I wish Godot's syntax for .NET wasn't horrible though. Its so nasty looking that it just makes me want to use their native language instead.
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#145Rider is much better and faster than Visual Studio, and it's worth every penny. Making it free is a great move.
Just more Big Tech setting the terms for all of us trying to make a living.
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#146JetBrains licenses are one of the few software licenses that I pay for. Their IDEs have the features I need while keeping the UI from getting in the way.
Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use
#147This 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.
> I'd also like to note the great integration Rider has with Godot I wish Godot's syntax for .NET wasn't horrible though. Its so nasty looking that it just makes me want to use their native language instead.
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#148There are a few privately owned companies that amaze me: JetBrains, Valve among the top. Somehow they have a much better value/user and make reasonable decisions: counter intuitive to investors/shareholders but insanely intuitive to their users. I am sure the public market has made the general public reap the rewards of large companies (kudos!) but some of the privately owned companies are absolutely kicking ass to s…
But being a public company wouldn't make it any better.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use Visual Studio from work and personally subscribe to JetBrains. For those developing commercial software on a budget, Visual Studio Code is an excellent option. Although it lacks some features of JetBrains and Microsoft tools, pairing the .NET CLI with VS Code can still deliver impressive results. if you can afford $10 monthly, integrating GitHub Copilot with VS Code can elevate it to a fancy, lightweight IDE
That's my exact workflow nowadays. The best text editing experience with GH copilot and lowest battery footprint makes using a VSC a no-brainer. It's especially nice since it also happens to be the choice for Rust, so I experience very little friction, not having to switch an editor and using capable CLI of .NET and Cargo. For advanced scenarios Rider still rules, and this change is a very welcome one. I hope it will…
> I hope it will help with promoting .NET as the first choice where teams historically picked Go (which is worse)
Curious in what ways specifically you think Go is worse than .NET and what contexts?Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use
#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does "noncommercial use" mean in this context though? These are tools for work - is the idea that students can use them for free and then will start paying once they finish school?
Students or OSS