3 ms·

I use Rider now, VS got to the point of being so slow that frequently I'd have to wait 0.5 seconds for each character I was typing to appear. The performance i

by louthy 6y ago

I use Rider now, VS got to the point of being so slow that frequently I'd have to wait 0.5 seconds for each character I was typing to appear. The performance is utterly, utterly terrible. Yet, all I see from the VS team on Twitter is "look at this new useless feature we've added", when all I needed was for the code I'm typing to appear. God help you if you ever wanted to rename a symbol, it was Schrodinger's rename, it would either complete immediately, or never complete, lock up VS, and I'd have to restart. So I had to stop using it, and eventually I stopped using VS altogether. Rider has its own quirks and annoyances, but it's quick, and lets me type even when it's doing stuff. There seems to be something very wrong with the architecture of VS.

fuzzy2 6y ago
Actually Visual Studio is quite fast again. It's just that Resharper does its very best to slow it down. I don't believe this will ever change. Well except maybe Microsoft will fully deprecate COM-based in-process extensions.
- Scramblejams 6y ago
  JetBrains is working hard to fix it: https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2020/02/24/update-running-resharper-process https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2020/02/24/update-running-...
  - fuzzy2 6y ago
    Of course. However, I’m not sure this will achieve the desired speedup, because part of Resharper still needs to run in-process to integrate with Visual Studio. And it integrates a lot. And I’m sure at least some of the APIs it uses are actually not asynchronous. So, only limited room for improvement.
tester756 6y ago
I'm using newest VS with Roslynator (instead of Resharper) and it doesn't feel slow once it "warms-up" I do have NVMe M2 Disk if that matters
- louthy 6y ago
  I never used Resharper, just plain old VS. It was dog slow, I’ll never go back, it’s not just the performance, but lack of stability, crashes, lots of exceptions, etc. It just feels like a project that’s not been given the love, and one that’s just having more and more features built on top of shaky foundations. The other day one of my team (who still uses VS) complained of cut n paste not working (it would paste half the selection). The basics are broken in my humble opinion
olvy0 6y ago
I've been using Visual Studio 2010, and then 2017 and 2019, with a pretty big solution loaded, and never ran into issues like you mentioned. For me it was always pretty snappy, including refactoring actions. OTOH I've hardly ever used or installed Resharper (or Rider). When I did try Resharper, I found Visual Studio was dog slow, very much like what you described, and it provided me with very little benefit compared to what I already had in VS.

by louthy 6y ago

fuzzy2 6y ago

Actually Visual Studio is quite fast again. It's just that Resharper does its very best to slow it down. I don't believe this will ever change. Well except maybe Microsoft will fully deprecate COM-based in-process extensions.

Scramblejams 6y ago
JetBrains is working hard to fix it: https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2020/02/24/update-running-resharper-process https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2020/02/24/update-running-...
- fuzzy2 6y ago
  Of course. However, I’m not sure this will achieve the desired speedup, because part of Resharper still needs to run in-process to integrate with Visual Studio. And it integrates a lot. And I’m sure at least some of the APIs it uses are actually not asynchronous. So, only limited room for improvement.

tester756 6y ago

I'm using newest VS with Roslynator (instead of Resharper) and it doesn't feel slow once it "warms-up" I do have NVMe M2 Disk if that matters

louthy 6y ago
I never used Resharper, just plain old VS. It was dog slow, I’ll never go back, it’s not just the performance, but lack of stability, crashes, lots of exceptions, etc. It just feels like a project that’s not been given the love, and one that’s just having more and more features built on top of shaky foundations. The other day one of my team (who still uses VS) complained of cut n paste not working (it would paste half the selection). The basics are broken in my humble opinion

olvy0 6y ago

I've been using Visual Studio 2010, and then 2017 and 2019, with a pretty big solution loaded, and never ran into issues like you mentioned. For me it was always pretty snappy, including refactoring actions. OTOH I've hardly ever used or installed Resharper (or Rider). When I did try Resharper, I found Visual Studio was dog slow, very much like what you described, and it provided me with very little benefit compared to what I already had in VS.