Rider Pros and Cons

Rider allows the user to preserve keyboard scheme from Resharper or Visual Basic - which is very convenient for switchers. It also allows full customization of keyboard shortcuts according to the user's preferences. Navigating across files and searching for features is very easy - thanks to its combined file and action search. Code Cleanup is very helpful for independent developers like me because it simplifies my code to a great extent. Find and Replace feature can even work across files to omit duplicate instances. The Debugger is even capable of decompiling the source code to locate faulty functions. Rider is efficiently capable of maintaining multiple projects in a centralized manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I had to make my own template as default templates were not exactly suitable. Setting up the debugger with environment variables seemed a bit counterintuitive. After debugging codes, changes will not be visible until a run is stopped and the solution is rerun - which was quite confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really love all of the Jetbrains suite of IDEs. They are easy to use, and the ability to synchronize settings across IDEs is very helpful! It was very easy for our team to switch from Visual Studio to Rider. The many plugins and simple UI are really nice. I feel that the out-of-the-box features are also a bit more advanced than Visual Studio. Pricing is also very competitive! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of their biggeset downsides is the lack of integration with legacy systems for developing .net software for Windows. The language support for VB.net leaves some to be desired, and the lack fo a drag-and-drop editor for WinForms makes Visual Studio much more appealing.

It is also harder to find good project templates for Rider, as it is not as commonly used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the thing that I love on this is auto complition, suggestion and auto import of classess.

I become more effecient this compare to visual studio code and visual studio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its hard to migrate my working environment

The default config the size of text is too large, the spacing is too wide.

Setting sass compiler quite challenging incounter some issue.

This the issue is after setting up the sass compiler at first saving its compiles but after making changes on scss file it not compite automatically I need to delete the compiled file in order to apply my changes. after lot of searching there is a trick need to delete line of text in config after that hard time. This application works fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ability to run on Windows and Linux much better than other IDEs. Availability of many tools and plugins such as Copilot, Amazon Q, GitLen and others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing I dislike is that the annual license fee is a bit high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rider is best IDE for .net development.

The features i likes are

1. lightweight

2.Text highlighting

3. collaboration

4. Code folding

5. Auto completion

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I never faced any problem while using rider. But sometimes package installation and debugging run slower than usual. It's not a big problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

IT reallly resembles visual studio skills and tools.

Really user Friendly UI.

It's really easy to develop for .net using Rider.

Has hot reload and really good integrations with cloud and GIT. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not free.

I think it consumes more resources than VS and far more than VSCode.

It would be better to be a lot more extensible like VSCode.

Only for .NET.

Not so much extensions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rider is the exact some as every other Jetbrains IDE, so once you learn one of them you know all of them so to speak. No suprises. The documentation compared to other IDEs is also superior in my experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is much harder to assign custom keybinds in my opinion, such as creating one to open the last viewed tab. I also do not like its file search feature as it wont auto clear things that were in it before hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Debugging with rider is extremely easy. I use it every day and love amount integration with different tools. I dont think I can get back to using visual studio Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of features in comparison to Visual studio are not available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like the most it is Unity integration, while working with Unity it's above other solutions. Code completion, theming, debugging are all great find cause usage even within Unity scene is also doable which a really a plus Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

laRider uses alot resources by default even in smaller project but it even more disturbing in bigger project CPU and RAM usage are really high, for CPU not too much but RAM usage high 8Gb of RAM can be gone just by opening a project Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Started using the rider four years ago. Before that, I used another popular IDE for Net, and often disowned Rider. However, I was introduced to this system by a friend of mine, and I was absolutely delighted. It works very fast, smart tips for writing code, creating your own templates, smart and fast refactoring, keeping to codestyle. Got my whole team hooked on rider, and I recommend it to everyone, especially novice developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The disadvantage is that the IDEs are not very flexible. Sometimes you have to write sub-modules in another programming language and have to use another similar IDE from the same company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.