Rider vs Visual Studio vs Resharper Best IDE for .NET Development

[@verdurakh]

Been a fan of Rider for about 2 years. Didn't know about the paste json as classes so thanks for that :)

[@oswin4715]

Have you tried using Rider with project repo in WSL2? I know it’s not common most people use in Windows to develop in C# but WSL2 is good.

[@codingflamingo]

I was trying to do some WSL2 work and couldn't get rider to work so moved back that day to vs. is there a good way to do it?

[@oswin4715]

@@codingflamingoWe use WSL2 for our projects at my work. I managed to get it working by just opening in Rider with \\WSL$ path. Don’t use the remote connection it sucks. The problem is I’m trying to figure out how to debug docker compose containers

[@ConquerorAR]

I think you probably running visual studio on a pretty strong machine, on cpu limited situations visual studio with resharper is almost unusable. Will try rider but I am pretty confident that it will be alot better

[@akin242002]

9GB of RAM for an IDE is rough. My company is very stingy with additional RAM past the base 16GB and makes employees pay out of pocket.

[@codingflamingo]

To be fair, this was running a massive project. For smaller projects it uses around 4 gb or less. Just wanted to show the extremes since some people's codebases grow to be that big

[@thibauthanson7670]

If Rider is using 9GB, Visual Studio will be using more.

[@Guillen8606]

They both have similar features but Rider makes your life easier.

[@ozanyasindogan]

I've been using Rider for about 6 months now, currently using it for a blazor project and its hot reloading lacks a lot behind Visual Studio in Windows. Most of the times it forces you to rebuild the app when you do any change where Visual Studio simply apply the changes smoothly. VS + Resharper is a good combination. When you switch to MacOs, didn't see much of a benefit than using VS Code actually.

[@ConquerorAR]

It is very bad in cpu limited situations, you need like 1 minute for the project to become responsive. And if you are opening multiple projects it is just a nightmare

[@Sp1tfire100]

Wat? Better navigation? It's a copy of vs code ui