Surely VS Code?

JetBrains Rider is top-tier.

VSCode is mostly good enough and if you don't mind forking out for a license, Jetbrains Rider is better overall

Claude and codex ? Half joking, but can't remember last time I bothered booting up Rider - probably over 6 months - will unsubscribe next year. VSCode is good enough for exploring changes, Llama are driving the CLI tooling anyway.

I’d go with Rider myself. Vscode?

I switched to Mac and tried Rider for a while but ended up very happy doing everything in VS Code. I guess in the pre Agent days I would have put more effort into learning Rider but in modern times I just don’t need so many fancy tools for manual refactoring etc. But if you’re still very hands on, it’s an excellent - and possibly superior - Visual Studio replacement.

Rider if you want a regular IDE. VS Code if reading code from an AI is enough.

Visual Studio / Rider / VS Code, depends how much RAM and CPU device has.

I prefer VS but for the performance, I use VS Code. Unable to work in Rider on 32 GB RAM.

As a C dev, the thought that just running an IDE needs 32GB of RAM is insane to me

There was a DJGPP rememberance post a few days ago. Machines had 4-16 Megabytes of RAM back then. Times change.

I've been using Rider for about a decade, but honestly these days I just use Zed. I'm surprised how fast roslyn-language-server is now.

IDE? In the AI era?

I used to use Rider, but its slow and clunky with too many bugs now. It's big advantages were all its code fixes, refactoring etc. These days with AI on linux I just make the AI environment the IDE and use vim as an editor when I need it. Haven't opened Rider for 8/9 months now and stopped my renewal for it. .NET is super easy to use from a command line, so you can do whatever custom set up you like. If you really want an IDE, you could go with Rider, I believe they have a free version now for non commercial work, but I feel like the days of IDEs are kind of numbered.

Same experience. Used Rider exclusively for maybe 8 years, all of them on linux, but clanker advancements in the past six months finally allowed me not to open it at all recently. I believe I even removed it from disk.

Good IDE but they ignored bugs and serious performance problems for too long. The main project I'm working on isn't even that big, maybe 1M SLoC in total, most of them C#, and Rider really struggles with it even on good hardware.

This forced some architectural changes to satisfy the machine (breaking out libraries where they weren't necessary, running code analyzers only in CI, not during development, etc).

So I don't miss the experience.

MS finally have a language server (still in preview, but it works fine) which can be attached to helix in a couple of lines, and that + good knowledge of Unix command line tools is more than enough now.

GitHub Copilot CLI ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯ Then I use a draft PR to review the code

I'm using VSCode with remote development on Linux server to develop for Dynamics 365 Dataverse/Sales.. let that sink in :)

Visual studio still feels like the only real option to me. I would consider switching to windows if it meant I could use it.

There is a gigantic difference between "technically possible", "practical" and "enjoyable". I had some junior engineers hounding my ass about using ORMs and the liability of manual schema management until they saw how sqlproj and sql compare work in VS proper. You can certainly string this along with 3rd party and custom using other IDEs, but then you don't have as much time and energy to focus on the actual problem. Maintaining a stack just to maintain your stack is pretty crazy to me. I'll happily pay the idiot tax at Home Depot for the Milwaukee option so I can place an invariant on this part of the problem space. I never want to be in a position where I can blame my tools for a bad work product.

VS.NET 2022