Project Rider – A C# IDE

Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by ohitsdom on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @10:27AM (#10894944)

Completely agree. Also, the fact that Visual Studio Community edition is free, whereas Jetbrains is now on a SaaS model for their products means this is pretty much dead on Windows.

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Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by snuxoll on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @11:40AM (#10895553)

Yes, community edition is free, to those with fewer than five users or $1mm in gross revenue. Those of us with more than that still have to pay, and I would much rather throw money at JetBrains than have to split it between MS and JetBrains.

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Re:Project Rider – A C# IDE by SmellyGeekBoy on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @08:16PM (#10898971)

While it is indeed free, it comes with online activation and needs to be tied to a Live account (or whatever it's called these days) after the first 30 days. This is a pretty stupid decision IMO, as I discovered a few weeks back on a non-internet-connected dev server.

And I say that as a longtime VS fan and advocate!

(Of course, I guess JetBrains products would suffer exactly the same problem now with the new SaaS model - I just needed a rant about this particular issue.)

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