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JetBrains Rider:
New Cross-Platform .NET IDE
A Q&A with Kirill Skrygan, Rider Team Lead at JetBrains
Q What is JetBrains Rider?
A Rider is our new stand-alone cross-platform IDE for .NET development. It is built on top of IntelliJ platform and incorporates features of our well-known Visual Studio extension, ReSharper. Rider is a smart, powerful, yet very fast and smooth IDE.
Rider provides .NET developers with smart code completion, highlighting, search, navigation, code inspections, quick-fixes, and refactorings. IntelliJ platform brings debugger, excellent VCS integration, local history, building, and many other features that help developers be productive.
We are doing our best to make Rider fast, because it’s one of the key aspects that affect developer happiness. Rider uses our new technology that runs features like code indexing or analysis in a process that is completely separated from UI, which allows Rider to be a very powerful, yet smooth and responsive IDE, that lets you develop .NET applications on Mac or Linux, not just Windows.
Q What platforms and technologies does Rider support?
A The majority of modern .NET technologies is supported, including ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core web applications, as well as desktop .NET applications.
We support Unity via bundled plugin that brings Unity-specific features to Rider. Xamarin is supported on both iOS/Android platforms, so Rider can load, build, run and debug Xamarin applications.
Rider embeds IntelliJ components to better support different .NET-related technologies. For example, it uses amazing features from WebStorm to support all kinds of web technologies, and DataGrip functionality
to work with databases and SQL files.
To learn more about Rider and download g a free 30-day trial, please visit
Q Is Rider going to support everything ReSharper supports?
A Right now Rider has 90% of ReSharper features. Diagrams, call tracking and hierarchy tool windows will ultimately be supported, too. Moreover, both IntelliJ and ReSharper plugins can be used with Rider as well.
Q Why should Visual Studio users consider trying Rider?
A If we’re talking about pure Visual Studio experience (without ReSharper), the reasons are fairly obvious: Rider will give you what Visual Studio simply cannot: hundreds of code inspections and fixes, small and large refactorings, smart navigation and code generation.
Compared to Visual Studio with ReSharper installed, Rider still gives you strong reasons to consider it. It’s faster (according to feedback we receive from our users) and because it uses 64-bit architecture, Rider can work with very complex or large solutions that are beyond 32-bit capabilities of current Visual Studio. And don’t forget that Rider can work on any modern OS, not just Windows.
www.jetbrains.com/rider