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Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by wluu on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @07:39AM (#10893856)
Nope. And they aren't using Roslyn from what I'm aware.
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Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by alkonaut on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @07:41AM (#10893862)
I assume they aren't, because their Resharper codebase already had the bits needed. Still, if you start writing a C# IDE from scratch, wouldn't the obvious choice be using Roslyn for everything from autocomplete to refactorings? Easily half to 90% of the work going into an IDE has to be in the language services (if you want to do the really tricky things well, like completing broken syntax).
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Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by gorohoroh on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @07:57AM (#10893927)
It's not built from scratch. It makes full use of the existing ReSharper code base.
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Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by mariusmg on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @08:07AM (#10893960)
>It makes full use of the existing ReSharper code base.

R# is written in C# while their IDEs is in Java. Most likely they "convert" some of the C# code to Java. It'll be ugly...

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Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by nskvortsov on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @08:21AM (#10894035)
Yet it indeed makes full use of resharper:

"instead of reimplementing ReSharper’s features on the IntellIJ Platform, which runs on the JVM, we’re using ReSharper in a headless mode, out of process, and communicating with it via a very fast custom binary protocol. "

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Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by dfkf on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @08:18AM (#10894012)
No, it's mentioned in the article that their new IDE is just a frontend for R#.
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