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.
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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.
All well and good, if .NET was actually 100% 20 years of portable history without Microsoft/Windows specific tooling.
Borland taught me what it means to always being a 2nd class experience versus owning the platform tooling.
People complain about VS bloat and their answers is to put a yet another heavy weight plugin on top.
When my teammates ask me why my VS is so fast versus theirs, well I don't run Resharper.