I’m using it for backend work day in and day out and it’s a joy.

It’s awesome. What I enjoy most is, that all the different tools feel the same, and you can use the same kind of IDE also for web developmen, JavaScript and SQL. Rider also has webstorm and datagrip bundled as a plug in, so you can also do everything in one IDE. I prefer though to use the standalone tools for that, they have just less features than rider/IntelliJ, but i would consider that a plus. Less menu items, less tool windows.

The Datagrip integration is so cool whenever I need to write raw SQL queries inside Rider

I'm a web developer that has used VS Code for years, but these past few months have been using Rider for developing a Unity project. One thing that really stands out to me about Rider is the "Refactor" (Ctrl+Shift+R) feature; extremely useful.

It allows you to just build things rapidly without worrying much about patterns/naming because once your vague ideas solidify and you realize where you went wrong, it's really easy to just Ctrl+Shift+R and make any codebase-wide adjustments instantly.

It's also great about picking up sub-optimal implementations or patterns with helpful warnings, and you just Ctrl+. to have it auto-fix for you. Using these Rider features combined with Github Copilot, I was able to pretty easily learn intermediate level C# because it's like having a mentor working along side you.

I migrated a while ago from VS + ReSharper to Rider. Mainly backend work. It’s been great.

Except botched C# style rules. Rider still insists on Java style guidelines for .net projects. And sometimes, it spawns a never ending background process that only way to get rid of is to restart the app. Otherwise, it's okay.

edit: been using Rider on Linux since a few years now

> Rider still insists on Java style guidelines for .net projects.

No, it uses Resharper as the backend.

I've been using Rider style rules for two years now exclusively in a VS based team and aside from some linebreak rules I need to tweak here and there I've seen no issues ?

But I use a .editorconfig tuned stylecop and roslynator on all projects so maybe that overrides some defaults.

Mind sharing which Java style rules are you seeing ?

Rider highlights pascal cased class methods/attributes and suggests to use camel case, for example. I haven't changed any style settings. This is Rider default. Maybe its a Linux thing.

That's just a few .editorconfig lines away from begin consistent for the whole team.