C Sharp

I absolutely swear by Rider, but reading your comments perhaps there's a lot to Visual Studio's debugger that I've never taken advantage of.

I find Visual Studio to be terribly slow and bloated. I was also an avid Resharper user, so rider was a much better fit for me. I'm fortunate that I don't work with WPF anymore and I've never touched WinForms so those missing features don't bother me.

Using Rider has also meant I can fully move over to Linux which has vastly simplified things for me. No longer am I having to fight to get bash, docker etc to work on Windows. So my development environment now much more closely resembles the server environment.

If it helps, I've been a visual studio user for the last 9 years.

In order to better support non-C# devs onboarding to C# (who where mostly on Mac, and vs for Mac is terrible) I switched to Rider 6 months ago, so we are using the same IDE and I can help them out.

Holy crap, it's good. There are a few things that aren't quite as nice (no more intellicode, stack traces are kinda shitty), but after fixing some garbage default settings, it's turned into a pretty good IDE.

The visual studio debugger is still better though.

Completely agree that VS is way more powerful than Rider. It is kept up to date and has excellent tools for new tech like Blazer hot reloads and Maui designer. The debugger is the most powerful way to debug code.

I still use Rider, because I use JetBrains ide's for all my projects and I can run it on Windows Mac and Linux. When I hit a speed bump or want to go fast or try a new feature, i swap to VS :p

I have used Rider exclusively for a last few years. During this time I've only used Visual Studio to open some debug and memory dump files that were open by VS natively. While I can't say which is better since I haven't pretty much used VS in a while, but I never really missed it and I really love using Rider, so that must mean something!

Well people using rider mostly also adding bunch of tools. Rider are well known on avalonia UI designer and it's very supporter.

VS is better for debugging, I do agree.. And there are vs code with dev net toolkit. It's powerful and useful.. I'm much loving vs code than the full blown IDE. 😂

I swapped to using Rider about 4-5 years ago now, back when visual studio's refactoring tools just weren't quite as good. Since then, because I've learnt all of the keybindings, the layout and I've just generally become familiar with rider I've never swapped back. I'm actually not sure how caught-up visual studio is these days as I've not even bothered to look. Since it also has dotmemory and dotpeek support, it also just makes life easier for me.

As a side note, I'm pretty sure the watch window is a list of variables and you can just add to it? (Not got my PC / rider open right now, so can't check to be honest)