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WebStorm and Rider, JetBrains IDEs, are now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.

Rider is the best C# IDE IMO, works on linux, mac, and of course Windows. Very happy it’s now free!

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    2·
    23 days ago

    That’s sick, unfortunately too late, ended up ditching full fat vs, employer wouldn’t pay for rider so I just went full into vscode and then vim/helix

    What do you use Rider for that can’t be easily done via CLI?

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techOPEnglish
      2·
      23 days ago

      The question isn’t what can’t be easily done, but what I prefer. I can compile dotnet code into it’s dlls via the cli, I can set up debugging in vscode, but it’s a pain. Rider is pre-setup with all of the shortcuts I like, the colors and syntax highlighting I like, and it’s been my preferred IDE for years. I like hitting ctrl+shift+b to compile, all of the debug tools it gives, the rundowns, the experience is just clean for me.

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
        1·
        23 days ago

        That’s fair, personally keybindings always struck me as something easier to automate than pay for