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Any good alternatives for C#, or anyway to make VS Code less draining

hprotagonist 4y ago
Rider? https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/ https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/ edit: https://github.com/OmniSharp https://github.com/OmniSharp exists, and is LSP-ish, but I have never used it.
- tsgagnon 4y ago
  JetBrains Rider is a cross-platform .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper. It's been years since I've used Resharper and maybe things have changed, but if you are looking to improve battery life, it's one of the last things I would start using.
  - quaffapint 4y ago
    I use Rider daily on an M1 and easily get through the day. I'm not compiling every second, but using it pretty consistently along with slack/chrome/etc.
- kelsolaar 4y ago
  As much as I love Jetbrains applications and use them daily, they are battery hogs. PyCharm will deplete my M1 battery in a handful of hours.
  - xupybd 4y ago
    Battery and ram hogs. My work laptop is often at full ram usage (16mb) with the fans spinning at full speed. I used to code in vim and sublime text. The change in system load is shocking. I like Rider and will continue to use it but it's crazy how much of a hog it is.
    - tstrimple 4y ago
      > My work laptop is often at full ram usage (16mb) At least you've upgraded beyond 640k!
      - xupybd 4y ago
        Hahaha, gah, one day I'll learn to proof read.
phkahler 4y ago
My guess would be to turn off all features except syntax hilighting. Without that you may as well use notepad.
supriyo-biswas 4y ago
Get a $10 VPS and use the SSH extension to connect and develop stuff remotely.
elliottkember 4y ago
https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/02/16/extension-bisect https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/02/16/extension-bis...
kcartlidge 4y ago
> Any good alternatives for C#, or anyway to make VS Code less draining I've used VS Code, Rider, and even VS2022 via Parallels, and in the end I switched to VS Mac. It had been a year or so since I last really tried it and in that time it had gone native ARM (faster and less battery drain) and been much improved. Unless I need legacy stuff or Windows-only dev, I now see no reason to use anything other than Visual Studio Mac on my M1 Air for C# development.
jonhohle 4y ago
It’s not for everybody, but choose a good text editor with syntax features, read documentation and related code, use a lightweight build system, and write without an IDE. It’s really not that difficult, is transferable to any framework or language, and forces you to learn APIs and code bases. In the past 20 years I’ve used Vim to write PHP, Java, Bash, C, C++, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, Objective-C, Swift, a proprietary S-expression language, and documents in LaTeX. This isn’t something I drop into occasionally, it’s my primary editor used along side compilers and interpreters. I’ve never once said, Vim doesn’t start fast enough or is taking too much memory (though I have caused it to hang based on my own dumb search or replace commands). There are plenty of native text editors that work just as well. On the Mac I’ve had great experiences with BBEdit, TextMate, and SubEthaEdit. Other people like Sublime. There really is no shortage of great text editors. Developers need to start treating electron apps like the plague. They are merely low effort attempts at cross platform tools written in the most user hostile way.

Rider? https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/ https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/ edit: https://github.com/OmniSharp https://github.com/OmniSharp exists, and is LSP-ish, but I have never used it.

tsgagnon 4y ago
JetBrains Rider is a cross-platform .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper. It's been years since I've used Resharper and maybe things have changed, but if you are looking to improve battery life, it's one of the last things I would start using.
- quaffapint 4y ago
  I use Rider daily on an M1 and easily get through the day. I'm not compiling every second, but using it pretty consistently along with slack/chrome/etc.
kelsolaar 4y ago
As much as I love Jetbrains applications and use them daily, they are battery hogs. PyCharm will deplete my M1 battery in a handful of hours.
- xupybd 4y ago
  Battery and ram hogs. My work laptop is often at full ram usage (16mb) with the fans spinning at full speed. I used to code in vim and sublime text. The change in system load is shocking. I like Rider and will continue to use it but it's crazy how much of a hog it is.
  - tstrimple 4y ago
    > My work laptop is often at full ram usage (16mb) At least you've upgraded beyond 640k!
    - xupybd 4y ago
      Hahaha, gah, one day I'll learn to proof read.

phkahler 4y ago

My guess would be to turn off all features except syntax hilighting. Without that you may as well use notepad.

supriyo-biswas 4y ago

Get a $10 VPS and use the SSH extension to connect and develop stuff remotely.

elliottkember 4y ago

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/02/16/extension-bisect https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/02/16/extension-bis...

kcartlidge 4y ago

> Any good alternatives for C#, or anyway to make VS Code less draining I've used VS Code, Rider, and even VS2022 via Parallels, and in the end I switched to VS Mac. It had been a year or so since I last really tried it and in that time it had gone native ARM (faster and less battery drain) and been much improved. Unless I need legacy stuff or Windows-only dev, I now see no reason to use anything other than Visual Studio Mac on my M1 Air for C# development.

jonhohle 4y ago

It’s not for everybody, but choose a good text editor with syntax features, read documentation and related code, use a lightweight build system, and write without an IDE. It’s really not that difficult, is transferable to any framework or language, and forces you to learn APIs and code bases. In the past 20 years I’ve used Vim to write PHP, Java, Bash, C, C++, Ruby, Perl, JavaScript, Objective-C, Swift, a proprietary S-expression language, and documents in LaTeX. This isn’t something I drop into occasionally, it’s my primary editor used along side compilers and interpreters. I’ve never once said, Vim doesn’t start fast enough or is taking too much memory (though I have caused it to hang based on my own dumb search or replace commands). There are plenty of native text editors that work just as well. On the Mac I’ve had great experiences with BBEdit, TextMate, and SubEthaEdit. Other people like Sublime. There really is no shortage of great text editors. Developers need to start treating electron apps like the plague. They are merely low effort attempts at cross platform tools written in the most user hostile way.