Until 0600 UTC (1600 AEST), Jetbrains Rider personal is about 65% off (for the first year).
Very infrequently do JetBrains discount the personal subscriptions.
Can also upgrade to dotUltimate for another $24USD after purchasing at the discounted price, or a discount on the full pack, but Rider does alot.
Didn't touch JetBrains IDEs in ages, any reason why it's better than VS Code?
Not sure why the negs. We are at ozbargain. I'll prefer something for free rather than paying for it .
Well, you're in luck because you can use Rider for free. The only limitation of the unlicensed version is that you need to restart the app every 30 minutes. This is the only limitation that I am aware of.
How do you use the unlicensed version? It requires you to either start a free trail or activate a license after installing.
VS Code is not an IDE, it is a super-powerful text editor with elements of IDE. I use both in my work and they serve completely different purposes.
Mainly because VS Code actually isn't technically an IDE as such by definition, but a fancy text editor, that has the extensions that can turn it into an IDE, but Rider is a full fledged one.
I've tried Rider after a lot of people raving on about it, it definitely is fast and has some bits that even desktop Visual Studio doesn't do as well.
At the end of the day it all depends what you're authoring really, some areas Rider shines, and would out do VS Code, standard areas everyone will get by fine on VS Code.
C# winforms developer here. Rider is fast, but there are a couple of things it does not do well in regards to winforms development.
Firstly, if you are dependent on using the winforms designer, Rider will not be for you. It generates slightly different .designer code and has limited support for 3rd party control libraries such as DevExpress.
Secondly it generates slightly different csproj files compared to visual studio professional. This can be a problem when working in a team where the csproj files can flip flop.
It has some great features such a very good search/find/goto and is much more lightweight compared to visual studio professional. However, vs pro 2022 is finally 64 bit and the issues resharper had are not so bad now. I find the debugger in vs pro to be slightly better too.
Apples to oranges comparison. Rider is a full blown IDE with a bucket load more features while Code is more of a hybrid, text editor with IDE enabling extensions.
The real comparison would be using Visual Studio (not Code) free for non commercial work.
I use both (Rider and Code) professionally and wouldn’t be nearly as productive in Code doing .NET dev as I am with Riders extra features.
Well JetBrains IDE cannot be compared to VS Code as many stated above. But it can be compared to Visual Studio itself, as they are both IDE's.
Bonus, Visual Studio for Mac will be discontinued from 31st August 2024. Meaning no longer continued support nor maintained. So if you were doing any form of development work using .NET Core on a Mac, after the said date, the Visual Studio option is no longer the best way to go about it. Hence JetBrains IDE will be the new go to IDE for this. Even though many people were using this IDE on Macs anyway, it was nice having Microsoft support VS for Macs.
I personally haven't tried .NET dev on VSCode, but I have heard its not the best experience, specially when you're working with larger enterprise projects.
Jetbrains' C# Language Server is 10x better than the open source OmniSharp that you get with vscode.
Just a reminder that you can get the jetbrains tools for free if you are a student.
https://www.jetbrains.com/community/education/#students