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I find VS to be a bloated legacy relic that's particularly limited without ReSharper, although I much prefer the leaner and more advanced Rider which is a fract
by mythz 8y ago
I find VS to be a bloated legacy relic that's particularly limited without ReSharper, although I much prefer the leaner and more advanced Rider which is a fraction of the size with more intelligent features that VS has been copying (from R#/Rider) for several years. Rider is leaner, faster, smarter, more extensible with higher quality plugins offering better support for developing modern Web Apps.
IMO the investment in VS Code basically signals VS has become too bloated and complex to innovate on so they're better off creating a new IDE from scratch with better plugin extensibility and ecosystem that's innovating and delivering features significantly faster than VS which comparatively looks like it's stalled.
- HereBeBeasties 8y agoI don't know why you appear to have been downvoted - that's pretty much bang on IMO. Rider loads very large solutions an order of magnitude faster than Visual Studio and is generally more stable too. I've built tooling to do very large scale refactors at work and VS won't even open many of the synthetic solutions I generate as part of that as they seem to be just too large for it, whereas Rider always gets there eventually.
- tracker1 8y agoI haven't really used R# or Rider so cannot comment there. Will say I love VS Code and the progress it's made. Though once they had a file tree and an integrated terminal (bash on win/lin/mac) I've been very happy.