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.

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.

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.

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

JetBrains Rider is top-tier.

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.

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.

VS.NET 2022

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

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

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, LLMs are driving the CLI tooling anyway.

Surely VS Code?

I’d go with Rider myself. Vscode?

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

IDE? In the AI era?