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Is ASP.NET Core platform popular among developers who use non-Windows platform? Can we develop applications on top of ASP.NET without Visual Studio?

polskibus 8y ago
You can develop using VS Code + build using command line tool "dotnet".
fuzzy2 8y ago
Visual Studio Code is reasonably popular. It’s available on Windows, macOS and Linux. It even offers debugging. Though you can basically use any editor.
pknopf 8y ago
I have been on Ubuntu for roughly the past 2 years, doing primarily .NET. It is fairly comfortable. VSCode works, but I enjoy Rider.
duncanawoods 8y ago
"VS for Mac" is surprisingly decent these days. Change it to a dark theme and reduce the font-size and it's a good experience. It's much more stable than some of the earlier versions when packaged as "Xamarin IDE".
thejosh 8y ago
As someone who has been using Linux as my daily driver for over a decade, and is now using .NET Core at dayjob, Rider is FANTASTIC. The latest EAP (early access program) which is about to be released is very, very nice. Absolutely amazing. They are the company behind resharper, which is very popular. Can't stand Windows, and Visual Studio is pretty terrible as well (IMHO), it always freezes on my beefy hardware (32 core threadripper, oodles of RAM, NVME, etc).
- ygra 8y ago
  > it always freezes FWIW, VS freezes for me come mostly from Resharper. I'm still debating whether the small productivity gain is worth it. Pretty much the only thing I'm really missing without Resharper is the smart completion which VS doesn't do well on its own. It's kinda funny, though, how Jetbrains touts Rider's performance because the Resharper engine runs in a separate process. Something that Microsoft has recommended VS extensions that do a lot of hefty processing to do since VS 2008 ...
  - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
    We gave up on ReSharper a couple of months into using it. It's an amazing tool but the performance hit on VS just isn't worth it.
romanovcode 8y ago
Yes, developing on VS Code using MacOS without any issues so far.
robodale 8y ago
I'm doing ASP.NET Core on a Macbook Air using Visual Studio Code.

polskibus 8y ago

You can develop using VS Code + build using command line tool "dotnet".

fuzzy2 8y ago

Visual Studio Code is reasonably popular. It’s available on Windows, macOS and Linux. It even offers debugging. Though you can basically use any editor.

pknopf 8y ago

I have been on Ubuntu for roughly the past 2 years, doing primarily .NET. It is fairly comfortable. VSCode works, but I enjoy Rider.

duncanawoods 8y ago

"VS for Mac" is surprisingly decent these days. Change it to a dark theme and reduce the font-size and it's a good experience. It's much more stable than some of the earlier versions when packaged as "Xamarin IDE".

thejosh 8y ago

As someone who has been using Linux as my daily driver for over a decade, and is now using .NET Core at dayjob, Rider is FANTASTIC. The latest EAP (early access program) which is about to be released is very, very nice. Absolutely amazing. They are the company behind resharper, which is very popular. Can't stand Windows, and Visual Studio is pretty terrible as well (IMHO), it always freezes on my beefy hardware (32 core threadripper, oodles of RAM, NVME, etc).

ygra 8y ago
> it always freezes FWIW, VS freezes for me come mostly from Resharper. I'm still debating whether the small productivity gain is worth it. Pretty much the only thing I'm really missing without Resharper is the smart completion which VS doesn't do well on its own. It's kinda funny, though, how Jetbrains touts Rider's performance because the Resharper engine runs in a separate process. Something that Microsoft has recommended VS extensions that do a lot of hefty processing to do since VS 2008 ...
- SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
  We gave up on ReSharper a couple of months into using it. It's an amazing tool but the performance hit on VS just isn't worth it.

romanovcode 8y ago

Yes, developing on VS Code using MacOS without any issues so far.

robodale 8y ago

I'm doing ASP.NET Core on a Macbook Air using Visual Studio Code.