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This is exciting news. Ironically, it's almost unfathomable to imagine writing C# code in Visual Studios without having ReSharper installed. Glad to see ReSharp

This is exciting news. Ironically, it's almost unfathomable to imagine writing C# code in Visual Studios without having ReSharper installed. Glad to see ReSharper finally available cross platform!

UnoriginalGuy 11y ago
What? Resharper is barely useful in Visual Studio 2015, and the memory leak/lag/slowness/issues are tiresome. If I hadn't spent so much on Resharper I'd uninstall it.
- topbanana 11y ago
  Works well for me
  - UnoriginalGuy 11y ago
    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?pageId=37228482 https://confluence.jetbrains.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageI...
    - pbz 11y ago
      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.
      - Someone1234 11y ago
        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.
        alextgordon 11y ago
        > 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. In principle, only a small proportion of features need to be actively consuming cycles. Most require no resources until invoked by the user. Only a small proportion of those features are actively involved with drawing and so need to block the UI thread sometimes. And only a small proportion of those features perform some essential drawing operation and so need to block the UI thread every frame. So while a badly designed IDE with fewer features will outperform a badly designed IDE with many features, both will be trounced by a well-designed IDE with many features. It's the design that matters.
      - lsadam0 11y ago
        In my experience, no other VS extension even begins to affect performance to the degree ReSharper does. JetBrains readily acknowledges the performance issues. Is there a conflict of design between VS and ReSharper? Perhaps. But that their homegrown IDE build around ReSharper will work faster than VS + ReSharper is a pretty safe bet. Apples and oranges, here.
  - romanovcode 11y ago
    He is right to a degree, VS2015 implemented many refactoring tweaks and functions that were only available in ReSharper. Now VS2015 can refactor and inspect code by itself pretty darn good.
- philliphaydon 11y ago
  You're kidding right? R# has lots of benefits to VS2015.
- mdick_msft 11y ago
  Hi UnoriginalGuy, We appreciate the feedback. Can you contact me at mdick@microsoft.com? I would like to follow up with you regarding your concerns with ReSharper. Thanks.
lsadam0 11y ago
I'm always shocked to see this. In my experience ReSharper is an unusable hog. It absolutely destroys VS performance, and the UX is abysmal. This only got worse in VS2015. I keep giving ReSharper chances because of all the praise I see, and I always leave disappointed. I'm starting to suspect JetBrains is hitting these threads singing their own praises :). That said, I do love some of their other products like dotTrace, dotMemory, etc.
- martinni 11y ago
  The only time ReSharper slows down your system is when you load your project for the first time. But I'm more than happy to wait for an second (we have ~100 projects in our solution) so I can harness all the greatness that comes with it. If you're not finding it useful, perhaps you're not taking advantages of the right features? Here's some of my favorite shortcuts, I'll let you try them on your own. - ctrl+shift+l - ctrl+\ - ctrl+r+r - ctrl+shift+t - alt+insert
  - lsadam0 11y ago
    Many people have asserted this, but it's not true. As long as ReSharper is active it does have a performance impact. The impact varies depending on the current action, and yes opening a new project does have the largest impact. Honestly, I'm done giving ReSharper chances. Of all the times I've tried it, I've yet to encounter any feature that justifies the wet blanket thrown over the IDE. I've tried on large projects and small projects, across multiple computers. I've followed JetBrains' recommendations for improving performance. The performance impact is noticeable, and the UX drives me nuts. Like I said, I like some other products from JetBrains, but ReSharper just isn't for me. If it works for you, and the impact is negligible enough to not matter, thats great.
    - mdick_msft 11y ago
      Hi Isadam0, We appreciate the feedback. Can you contact me at mdick@microsoft.com? I would like to follow up with you regarding your concerns with ReSharper. Thanks.

This is exciting news. Ironically, it's almost unfathomable to imagine writing C# code in Visual Studios without having ReSharper installed. Glad to see ReSharper finally available cross platform!

UnoriginalGuy 11y ago

What? Resharper is barely useful in Visual Studio 2015, and the memory leak/lag/slowness/issues are tiresome. If I hadn't spent so much on Resharper I'd uninstall it.

topbanana 11y ago
Works well for me
- UnoriginalGuy 11y ago
  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?pageId=37228482 https://confluence.jetbrains.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageI...
  - pbz 11y ago
    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.
    - Someone1234 11y ago
      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.
      - alextgordon 11y ago
        > 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. In principle, only a small proportion of features need to be actively consuming cycles. Most require no resources until invoked by the user. Only a small proportion of those features are actively involved with drawing and so need to block the UI thread sometimes. And only a small proportion of those features perform some essential drawing operation and so need to block the UI thread every frame. So while a badly designed IDE with fewer features will outperform a badly designed IDE with many features, both will be trounced by a well-designed IDE with many features. It's the design that matters.
    - lsadam0 11y ago
      In my experience, no other VS extension even begins to affect performance to the degree ReSharper does. JetBrains readily acknowledges the performance issues. Is there a conflict of design between VS and ReSharper? Perhaps. But that their homegrown IDE build around ReSharper will work faster than VS + ReSharper is a pretty safe bet. Apples and oranges, here.
- romanovcode 11y ago
  He is right to a degree, VS2015 implemented many refactoring tweaks and functions that were only available in ReSharper. Now VS2015 can refactor and inspect code by itself pretty darn good.
philliphaydon 11y ago
You're kidding right? R# has lots of benefits to VS2015.
mdick_msft 11y ago
Hi UnoriginalGuy, We appreciate the feedback. Can you contact me at mdick@microsoft.com? I would like to follow up with you regarding your concerns with ReSharper. Thanks.

lsadam0 11y ago

I'm always shocked to see this. In my experience ReSharper is an unusable hog. It absolutely destroys VS performance, and the UX is abysmal. This only got worse in VS2015. I keep giving ReSharper chances because of all the praise I see, and I always leave disappointed. I'm starting to suspect JetBrains is hitting these threads singing their own praises :). That said, I do love some of their other products like dotTrace, dotMemory, etc.

martinni 11y ago
The only time ReSharper slows down your system is when you load your project for the first time. But I'm more than happy to wait for an second (we have ~100 projects in our solution) so I can harness all the greatness that comes with it. If you're not finding it useful, perhaps you're not taking advantages of the right features? Here's some of my favorite shortcuts, I'll let you try them on your own. - ctrl+shift+l - ctrl+\ - ctrl+r+r - ctrl+shift+t - alt+insert
- lsadam0 11y ago
  Many people have asserted this, but it's not true. As long as ReSharper is active it does have a performance impact. The impact varies depending on the current action, and yes opening a new project does have the largest impact. Honestly, I'm done giving ReSharper chances. Of all the times I've tried it, I've yet to encounter any feature that justifies the wet blanket thrown over the IDE. I've tried on large projects and small projects, across multiple computers. I've followed JetBrains' recommendations for improving performance. The performance impact is noticeable, and the UX drives me nuts. Like I said, I like some other products from JetBrains, but ReSharper just isn't for me. If it works for you, and the impact is negligible enough to not matter, thats great.
  - mdick_msft 11y ago
    Hi Isadam0, We appreciate the feedback. Can you contact me at mdick@microsoft.com? I would like to follow up with you regarding your concerns with ReSharper. Thanks.