
Refinement to ReSharper now has double the weight, improving both the. NET extension for Visual Studio in the back end, so it’s not meant to replace ReSharper but instead serve as a mutually beneficial supplement. Its host of popular and successful IDEs (and the associated plugins) are testament that it knows what it’s doing. NET extension for Visual Studio, has been around for 10. Its IntelliJ platform has been around for about 16 years now and ReSharper, its. “But Kate, who can compete with the creators of C#?” With a real alternative available, all the positive pressures of competition get put on Microsoft, so we’ll see continued improvements both in Visual Studio and Project Rider as they vie for their customers. Microsoft has a monopoly that forces OSX and Linux users to use virtual machines running Visual Studio for their development work. NET and C#, which, as we know, requires Windows. Visual Studio is currently the only viable IDE for. Here’s the lowdown on Project Rider, the newest member of the IntelliJ platform family: stand alone, cross-platform, ReSharper supported. NET IDE was announced mid-January at NDC London by Hadi Hariri (Jetbrains’ Developer Advocacy Lead) amid Jar Jar Binks hate speech and Javascript libel– you can watch his entertaining presentation on the JetBrains blog. No longer is JetBrains satisfied simply supporting their ReSharper plugin for VS, they’ve taken it to a new level. With Microsoft’s no-brainer shift towards open source and interoperability (for those of you who missed it, check out spin-off Microsoft Open Technologies, established 2012 and refolded in 2015), it was only a matter of time before we started seeing alternatives to some of their key products, like Visual Studio.Įnter Project Rider.Not, in fact, a cool old guy on a motorcycle Mad Max style (my first impression), but the code name for IDE guru JetBrains’ competition to Visual Studio…and answer to many prayers in the developer community.
