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Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Post by cageface » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 12:18 AM UTC

consteval wrote: post #429

cageface wrote: post #333

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every time I decide to try a Jetbrains IDE again I give up after a few days. They're always eating insane amounts of RAM and lagging hard while indexing my code again and again and again.

The solution is to use an NVME SSD and stop programming on Windows. NTFS is painfully slow for many-files type use cases. Unfortunately, many-files describes most codebases. Git clients on Windows are also painfully slow for this reason.

In fact I only use Apple Silicon macs, where the issue is still quite evident.

Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Post by alex_lav » Tue, Oct 29, 2024, 6:00 PM UTC

jdthedisciple wrote: post #296

alex_lav wrote: post #134

Rider is by far the best C# IDE. Especially if you're not running Windows. It was a real lifesaver while working with Unity.

Well, I'd wager most C# devs are ... running Windows, so...

Unsure how true that is, but I certainly never did.

Rider is better either way, but definitely better than alternatives on MacOS.

Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Post by consteval » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 2:09 PM UTC

cageface wrote: post #431

consteval wrote: post #429

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution is to use an NVME SSD and stop programming on Windows. NTFS is painfully slow for many-files type use cases. Unfortunately, many-files describes most codebases. Git clients on Windows are also painfully slow for this reason.

In fact I only use Apple Silicon macs, where the issue is still quite evident.

Not sure what to tell you, this should be solved on Macs. I'm pretty sure their SSDs are very fast. Although - be aware, the smaller capacity ones are about half the speed. They don't tell you that.

Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Post by alkonaut » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 10:18 PM UTC

suby wrote: post #300

alkonaut wrote: post #271

Any news about whether this will apply to RustRover too soon?

RustRover is already free for non-commercial use.

Oh nice I thought it was just while it was in preview

Re: Rider is now free for non-commercial use

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Post by Loocid » Fri, Nov 01, 2024, 12:58 AM UTC

popcalc wrote: post #430

Loocid wrote: post #318

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So does VSCode though. Are you thinking of Visual Studio?

VS code compared to studio for dotnet dev is comparing a tractor to a trike.

I agree, but the comment you are replying to was asking for the differences between VSCode and Rider. "It runs on Linux" is not one of those.