Oh, and a special mention is deserved for Rider's git merge UI, which is by far the best I've used.

It's based on 3 window panes: you get your code on the left, theirs on the right, and the result in the middle, along with tools for accepting changes from either side, and you can edit the result pane at will too.

I've never liked the git merge UIs in VS or VS code (or other IDEs I've tried over the years) - Rider's is perfect for me.

doesn't most three-way merge software have that UI? like kdiff3, meld, sublime merge, p4merge, vimdiff et al. (even think jetbrains products have it)

The thing is JetBrain's IDEs use that diff tool where-ever a diff is needed, not just for git. For example, in a local history of a file (like undo history), history of a single line in code, etc.

Jetbrains merge UI is like `git mergetool --tool=meld` (which you can use with x-tunneling on servers)

Personally, I prefer vscode/atom style merging, but to each his own

> Rider is absolutely stuffed with features

That's just it for me. The tools have so many good features, remain stable, and keep all those features out of my way until I need them. Like Adam Savage's first order accessibility principle for his workshops, the tool I need from their IDEs is always often in arms reach, yet still out of the way.

I also enjoy DotPeek a lot more than the other .NET decompilers out there. I bought Rider, hoping the Visual Studio emulations would satisfy me (I use Visual Studio at work, but run linux at home) but sadly I have been unable to get it to work.

I thought the same when I first saw "stock" Rider - it's a very different look and feel from Visual Studio, more what you'd be used to as a Java dev with IntelliJ, or an Android dev with Android Studio. I personally found th look a bit... dated.

A while back JetBrains made Rider more themable (prior to that update, you could only really theme the editor, not the file explorer etc). After that update, it looks great with a dark theme enabled!

I'm on mobile now, but if I remember later I'll mention the name of the theme I'm using - it's pretty close to VS's dark theme.

The IntelliJ dark theme is called Darcula. Nice pun.

That's one of the out-of-the-box themes, but I just checked and the theme I use is called "Visual Studio Code Dark Plus", and I use the colour scheme with the same name. You can find it as a plugin here: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/12255-visual-studio-cod...

DotPeek is a gem. I don’t need it often but when I do, I’m super glad it exists (and it’s free!)

does Rider have Edit and Continue now? That's the one selling point that keeps me on Visual Studio.

It does, and it's great!

I always found the Edit and Continue function in Visual Studio to be flakey: often it would say it wasn't "allowed" with the type of project I was using, or it took minutes to apply changes when it did work, or it crashed while applying changes... Rider got Edit and Continue 1-2 years ago (I think), and it's been completely reliable in that time!