Just to clarify something at the start of the article... If you are using full Visual Studio to develop with .NET 6, you will need 2022. If not, (eg. VS Code), will work with the command line sdk.
Apologies - my comment was poorly worded and I think it caused confusion. The article sort of implied that Visual Studio was "The Way to Develop in .NET", while both you and I obviously know that's not true.
I've seen a lot of documentation (third party and Microsoft) that just start in on a "Visual Studio"-based solution while ignoring everything else, which kind of rubs me the wrong way.
My reply wasn’t trying to be negative to yours. Just also wanting to include Rider :) sometimes the features lag behind in rider. Hence I had to be specific and say EAP.
Yeah I know the feeling. I like to remind people there is a good development experience on linux also when using Rider. Sometimes feel like people are still stuck on “.net is windows only!”
So, the parent comment I replied to was in relation to needing VS 2022 for .NET 6, to which I replied that you could use Jetbrains Rider EAP, obviously for .NET 6, to accomplish the task in the linked post.
> They will ever play catch-up with platform capabilities and only offer a subset of the package.
Obviously, they are competing with a 20+yo product.
But atleast I can get all my .NET work done on Linux without needing slow bloated VS with a ton of useless features like 'unit testing for poor code choices or legacy codebases', or 'integration with the 2nd worst collaborative tool after Jira'.
> They will ever play catch-up with platform capabilities and only offer a subset of the package.
Having used both Visual Studio and Rider for many years now, one is definitely playing catch up but I’m not convinced it’s Rider.
There is an equally long list of things that Rider does and VS doesn’t. There’s a reason Resharper for Visual Studio is so popular.
I’m fond of Visual Studio but using Rider on macOS instead of VS on Windows is a much nicer experience for my .NET development (and I know it’s subjective).
Also worth bearing in mind Rider’s cost vs VS Enterprise’s eye-watering licence fees.
Hot reload in Rider only works in debug mode on Windows (to be clear it also works in nondebug sessions on Windows). On Mac trying to use Hot Reload with Rider on a nondebug session errors out, so it’s not 100% yet.
