Why I use Jetbrains Rider instead of Visual Studio for C# and .NET

Hello everybody I'm Nick and in this video I will talk about why I prefer using Jetbrains Rider instead of Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code as my main IDE. My usecase might be different than yours but since many of you have been asking about this one, I thought I would make a video to address it.

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[krisztianszendrodi]

I love Rider. I'm using it with Unity for game development and their support is just amazing with features, like showing hints in the code about the different assets hooked up and serialized method calls.

[mattbrewerton]

Rider is an absolute powerhouse. I've been using it for years for work now - it used to be a bit "meh" but since they ironed out the kinks in the last couple of years, it's simply unbeatable. The coding efficiency of Rider vs VS is insane, and the general performance is just so much better. I can load multiple solutions in Rider before VS has loaded our largest solution.

[thodorisKtube]

Hello Nick, I recently found out your videos and I like them. I am a user of Rider as well and a great fan of its usability. What I would like to see is a video of you showing off ways the Rider makes your development cycle easier and faster like shortcuts you use a lot, plugins or settings (changed from default) etc. Keep up the good work!

[SashaIvanova_JB]

Hey, Nick! Fun fact: yours was the first video I watched while researching Rider for my job interview with JetBrains 😁 It filled me with excitement about the product I'd be writing about and solidified by resolve to join the team. Thank you for the work that you do on this channel!

[rosssec]

I watched this video, tried rider and have not looked back it is absolutely amazing. Thank you for this video!

[juang_]

Finally someone with my same use case and a need for a consistent IDE experience 2:05 . Thank you sir.

[focused-cat]

Hey Nick. Thanks for your videos, this one in particular introduced me to Rider. I love the tool and I think I'm gonna use it in the future. You mentioned Blazor, this is an update after 1 year, the debugger works great now, even better than visual studio, which is kinda sloppy for client apps. Keep it up dude!

[tz_robbjgames]

Hi, i'am looking to get dotUltimate on linux but have a question do dees extra features work on linux like Resharper, dotCover and dotMemory ?

[munawarkhurshid]

Blazor Wasm debugging is missing in Rider. Anyone thinking of switching and working on Blazor wasm should consider this.

[rungxanh]

Ever since I found out about Rider, I’ve gone above and beyond my peers to integrate it into my programming life. Very great tool!

[paulehigie]

I agree with you but you forgot one major difference VS is 32bit while Rider is 64bit.

[jabusallah]

Couldn't get VSCode to work with C# on my pop os machine so I downloaded rider and absolutely fell in love!

[ReindertKorver]

They have a free license for students, valid for at least a year as far as I can see. I'm trying it out looks very powerful!

[christophercoutinho]

hello. To run the code for c# in rider takes a lot of time. Do u know a fix for this? how do i make the code to run faster?

[WitheredPancake]

I've been using Rider EAP to evaluate it, and I'm really liking it and want to switch over, however I make good use of Visual Studio's SQL Server Projects, which allow me to keep my tables and stored procedures within version control (and the ability to publish updates to my schemas). Is it possible to achieve this using Rider (bearing in mind, I'm likely to switch to MacOS if I do use Rider)?

I was really happy with Visual Studio on Windows but then I started working on a mac machine. I had to switch something else because VS for mac is suck. So I had try Rider (the best one) and it changed my mine completedly, it just sooo good and I will use rider anyway if I go back to use Windows next time

[SergiusTaurus]

The rider is the best IDE for C#, just need get to used to it. The rider has the best tools for debugging and tips for best practice code. I love it.

[lost-prototype]

I'm all about Rider. It's amazing and blows VS out of the water. Also, I'm using it on Linux.

[mesics]

I use many JetBrain's IDEs and I like them all. I wanted to run my 15-20 year old C# projects, and Rider could not retarget them. Then I tried Visual Studio 2022 and it did easily after the start up

[adamadams]

Wow 😮 I feel that I really needed to hear the information you relayed in this video. I already have several of Jet Brain's products installed and have been exploring them recently etc.. I've also been FRUSTRATED beyond words with any and all of the development programs and methods I've been attempting to deal with/make functional for what I need.. I look forward to hearing more that your channel has to say and thank you for the info 🦾