Visual Studio is probably the most complete and solid IDE of our days, and undoubtedly it gets better every year and also.. bigger. From the point of view of its size and ressource usage, Visual Studio is enormous.
But the purpose of this post is not to criticise Visual Studio, but merely to present a valid alternative which in my opinion is the next biggest VS competitor: JetBrains Rider.
If you can get over the fact that it only has a paid version, which differs from Visual Studio which offers a Community Edition which is free, but lacks a number of features compared to the Enterprise version, Rider is a cool product and the best alternative.
As a cross-platform application, Rider behaves identically on all platforms, Windows, Mac & Linux.
I won’t get into details regarding Rider’s features, because you can discover them by going to the JetBrains website.
Rider my IDE of choice I use to work on .NET Core & Unity Projects.
Want to give it a shot? There is a free 30 days trial available for download.
Rider is free for students and faculty members.
