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Is Jetbrains Rider acceptable for .NET work under Linux, or do you miss Visual Studio proper?

5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
I actually preferred Rider even before fully moving my .NET work to Linux. If you have any experience with IDEA, you'll feel right at home (they are very similar and can be operated with pretty much the exact same shortcuts).
Ristovski 5y ago
I haven't had much experience with .NET on Visual Studio, but I would say that Jetbrains Rider is probably the best thing you can get for .NET work on Linux. As a matter of fact, they implemented their own hot-reload functionality themselves [0][1]. [0] - https://twitter.com/JetBrainsRider/status/1451487931466649610 https://twitter.com/JetBrainsRider/status/145148793146664961... [1] - https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/nextversion/ https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/nextversion/
LandR 5y ago
Even on windows I prefer rider. Less resource intensive,faster and crashes less for me.
shade 5y ago
Personally, I prefer Rider to VS on all platforms, including Windows. It has much better performance, feels like a modern IDE, and after doing Java for a few years in between .NET gigs using IntelliJ I've gotten to prefer how IntelliJ-platform IDEs work anyway. The "Structure" pane is super useful. Whereas, Visual Studio... well, let me just say first that I know real people work on that product, some of them are probably reading this, and if so, I appreciate you. Unfortunately, every time I've ended up having to switch from Rider to Visual Studio for some edge case scenario or to do an Azure deployment (before we moved that process into CI), I'd end up frustrated. Even with VS 2022, which is better, it's slow compared to Rider. Also, despite a couple of cosmetic coats of paint and new icons and such for VS'22, it doesn't really feel like a modern IDE or like it's changed noticeably since 2010 or so. Granted, stability is often a plus, but there's a ton of workloads in there that I don't think are relevant to a modern cross platform .NET Core 3.x/.NET 5/6 development experience and I suspect supporting all of that is a factor in why it's so slow. I haven't even gotten into how much worse the performance in VS gets when you add ReSharper to the mix, and even with all the genuine refactoring improvements in VS in the past decade, I still feel like I'm working with a couple of broken fingers when I don't have ReSharper active. Better refactorings, better intellisense.

I actually preferred Rider even before fully moving my .NET work to Linux. If you have any experience with IDEA, you'll feel right at home (they are very similar and can be operated with pretty much the exact same shortcuts).

Ristovski 5y ago

I haven't had much experience with .NET on Visual Studio, but I would say that Jetbrains Rider is probably the best thing you can get for .NET work on Linux. As a matter of fact, they implemented their own hot-reload functionality themselves [0][1]. [0] - https://twitter.com/JetBrainsRider/status/1451487931466649610 https://twitter.com/JetBrainsRider/status/145148793146664961... [1] - https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/nextversion/ https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/nextversion/

LandR 5y ago

Even on windows I prefer rider. Less resource intensive,faster and crashes less for me.

shade 5y ago

Personally, I prefer Rider to VS on all platforms, including Windows. It has much better performance, feels like a modern IDE, and after doing Java for a few years in between .NET gigs using IntelliJ I've gotten to prefer how IntelliJ-platform IDEs work anyway. The "Structure" pane is super useful. Whereas, Visual Studio... well, let me just say first that I know real people work on that product, some of them are probably reading this, and if so, I appreciate you. Unfortunately, every time I've ended up having to switch from Rider to Visual Studio for some edge case scenario or to do an Azure deployment (before we moved that process into CI), I'd end up frustrated. Even with VS 2022, which is better, it's slow compared to Rider. Also, despite a couple of cosmetic coats of paint and new icons and such for VS'22, it doesn't really feel like a modern IDE or like it's changed noticeably since 2010 or so. Granted, stability is often a plus, but there's a ton of workloads in there that I don't think are relevant to a modern cross platform .NET Core 3.x/.NET 5/6 development experience and I suspect supporting all of that is a factor in why it's so slow. I haven't even gotten into how much worse the performance in VS gets when you add ReSharper to the mix, and even with all the genuine refactoring improvements in VS in the past decade, I still feel like I'm working with a couple of broken fingers when I don't have ReSharper active. Better refactorings, better intellisense.