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It even handles the .NET Framework 4.8 code\u2021 that I maintain without any issues thanks to Mono. \u2020 And Neovim occasionally, but I mostly use it for Typescript or anything that isn't F#/C#. \u2021 https://github.com/nozzlegear/shopifysharp", "context": "F#/C# developer on Mac", "use_case": "F# and C# development", "switched_from": "", "story": ".NET 10"}, {"id": 799731296, "item_id": 49983206, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49983206", "by": "nozzlegear", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've felt the quality has gone downhill ever since I first started paying for it.", "excerpt": "I canceled my DotNet Ultimate subscription (or whatever it's called) earlier this year, even though Rider is (was) one of the best IDEs for my main squeeze, F#. It's not because I don't use Rider or IDEs, but because I've felt the quality has gone downhill ever since I first started paying for it. 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My phone scored better on benchmarks than it, as such Visual Studio was not a good experience, I convinced my boss to let us try Rider, it was incredible, I no longer had to sit for 10s of minutes for a project to load, it was relatively snappy. My next job I started usi", "context": "", "use_case": ".NET development", "switched_from": "Visual Studio", "story": "No More JetBrains Products for Me"}, {"id": 770984912, "item_id": 48186557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186557", "by": "detunized", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Rider a lot.", "excerpt": "I don't use CLion, but I use Rider a lot. And at some point I had to modify their JVM settings and give it more RAM. It got much snappier. I think when there's not enough RAM for JVM it runs GC too much and it gets slow. I also don't really load the IDE all the time. It just always there, just sits open. I use it daily. No need to restart it. I admit it feels slower than some other apps, but not so slow really. I hav", "context": "", "use_case": "daily development", "switched_from": "", "story": "No More JetBrains Products for Me"}]}, {"label": "Unreal C++", "summary": "A C++ Unreal developer said they love using it for that work.", "quotes": [{"id": 783361680, "item_id": 48960105, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48960105", "by": "StumpChunkman", "date": "2026-07-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using that for C++ Unreal development and absolutely love it.", "excerpt": "Have you tried Rider? I've been using that for C++ Unreal development and absolutely love it. It does help that IntelliJ was my daily driver for Java dev for a while.", "context": "C++ Unreal developer", "use_case": "C++ Unreal development", "switched_from": "", "story": "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"}]}, {"label": "Batteries included", "summary": "A former Neovim user valued its discoverable, ready-to-use environment over a fragile custom setup.", "quotes": [{"id": 785726096, "item_id": 49107881, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107881", "by": "DrewADesign", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "learning how to do what I wanted to do in a well-designed batteries-included environment had a much bigger payoff", "excerpt": "It\u2019s a balance. It\u2019s easy to spend more time dickering with tools than you save by having those tools. I used to have this amazing neovim setup that worked exactly like I wanted it to. Unfortunately, it was fragile, and while it was theoretically infinitely flexible, practically, it was too big of a PITA to change to be flexible on the run. Then a couple of unrelated plugin changes caused some big problems with my se", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "Neovim", "story": "The Productivity Mirage"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "Declining quality", "summary": "Longtime users report new bugs with each release and canceled subscriptions over it.", "quotes": [{"id": 799731296, "item_id": 49983206, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49983206", "by": "nozzlegear", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've felt the quality has gone downhill ever since I first started paying for it.", "excerpt": "I canceled my DotNet Ultimate subscription (or whatever it's called) earlier this year, even though Rider is (was) one of the best IDEs for my main squeeze, F#. 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So I ran out of patience and switched to VS Code, and that was the end of JB and my dear Rider for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"}, {"id": 799731296, "item_id": 49983206, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49983206", "by": "nozzlegear", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "warn", "quote": "I've felt the quality has gone downhill ever since I first started paying for it.", "excerpt": "I canceled my DotNet Ultimate subscription (or whatever it's called) earlier this year, even though Rider is (was) one of the best IDEs for my main squeeze, F#. It's not because I don't use Rider or IDEs, but because I've felt the quality has gone downhill ever since I first started paying for it. What broke the camel's back was the constant surveys they were sending me surveys asking how much I love AI in Rider, and", "context": "F# developer, canceled JetBrains subscription", "use_case": "F# and .NET IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}]}, {"label": "Memory tuning", "summary": "One user had to give the JVM more RAM to make it snappy and said it feels slower than some other apps.", "quotes": [{"id": 770984912, "item_id": 48186557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186557", "by": "detunized", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Rider a lot.", "excerpt": "I don't use CLion, but I use Rider a lot. And at some point I had to modify their JVM settings and give it more RAM. It got much snappier. I think when there's not enough RAM for JVM it runs GC too much and it gets slow. I also don't really load the IDE all the time. It just always there, just sits open. I use it daily. No need to restart it. I admit it feels slower than some other apps, but not so slow really. I hav", "context": "", "use_case": "daily development", "switched_from": "", "story": "No More JetBrains Products for Me"}]}, {"label": "Still need VS", "summary": "Some users still have to switch to Visual Studio for certain tasks.", "quotes": [{"id": 799656016, "item_id": 49978501, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978501", "by": "Semaphor", "date": "2026-10-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Rider but need VS for some things.", "excerpt": "When have you tried VS last? Since they went multi core, it\u2019s usually very fast and it\u2019s mostly R# slowing it down (though I read that improved, dunno). 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I use Rider but need VS for some things.", "context": "", "use_case": ".NET development", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"}, {"id": 796792416, "item_id": 49799526, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49799526", "by": "tedggh", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Rider was my IDE for years until they started pushing their AI tools while not letting you bring your own models.", "excerpt": "Rider was my IDE for years until they started pushing their AI tools while not letting you bring your own models. Then it seems they listened to the complaints and for a while I could use Codex but then the next update took it away. So I ran out of patience and switched to VS Code, and that was the end of JB and my dear Rider for me.", "context": "", "use_case": "IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "JetBrains Air: A System of Products for Agentic Software Development"}, {"id": 795848688, "item_id": 49740543, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740543", "by": "paulirwin", "date": "2026-09-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Rider instead of Visual Studio.", "excerpt": "It is different. I do nearly 100% of my .NET development on macOS, only dropping into Windows to support .NET Framework users of open-source projects I work on, and we deploy exclusively now on Linux containers. The apps I maintain haven't touched a Windows server in years. My colleagues (and OSS co-maintainers) use a mix of macOS, Windows, and Linux. I use Rider instead of Visual Studio. The only time I've been forc", "context": "does .NET development on macOS, open-source maintainer", "use_case": ".NET development", "switched_from": "Visual Studio", "story": "Performance Improvements in .NET 11"}, {"id": 792485122, "item_id": 49530320, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49530320", "by": "robomartin", "date": "2026-09-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Instead I used Codex with JetBrains Rider (doing a C# project) and it worked flawlessly.", "excerpt": "Last time I used the Windows version it pegged all my cores at 100% usage for some reason. The machine became unusable. Instead I used Codex with JetBrains Rider (doing a C# project) and it worked flawlessly.", "context": "", "use_case": "C# development", "switched_from": "", "story": "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"}, {"id": 785726096, "item_id": 49107881, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107881", "by": "DrewADesign", "date": "2026-07-30", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "learning how to do what I wanted to do in a well-designed batteries-included environment had a much bigger payoff", "excerpt": "It\u2019s a balance. It\u2019s easy to spend more time dickering with tools than you save by having those tools. I used to have this amazing neovim setup that worked exactly like I wanted it to. Unfortunately, it was fragile, and while it was theoretically infinitely flexible, practically, it was too big of a PITA to change to be flexible on the run. 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It does help that IntelliJ was my daily driver for Java dev for a while.", "context": "C++ Unreal developer", "use_case": "C++ Unreal development", "switched_from": "", "story": "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"}, {"id": 770984912, "item_id": 48186557, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186557", "by": "detunized", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Rider a lot.", "excerpt": "I don't use CLion, but I use Rider a lot. And at some point I had to modify their JVM settings and give it more RAM. It got much snappier. I think when there's not enough RAM for JVM it runs GC too much and it gets slow. I also don't really load the IDE all the time. It just always there, just sits open. I use it daily. No need to restart it. I admit it feels slower than some other apps, but not so slow really. I hav", "context": "", "use_case": "daily development", "switched_from": "", "story": "No More JetBrains Products for Me"}, {"id": 770977361, "item_id": 48186085, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186085", "by": "kjuulh", "date": "2026-05-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I convinced my boss to let us try Rider, it was incredible", "excerpt": "When I started my professional work, Visual Studio was the recommended editor where I was, it was terrible, the Laptops we had were incredibly shit. My phone scored better on benchmarks than it, as such Visual Studio was not a good experience, I convinced my boss to let us try Rider, it was incredible, I no longer had to sit for 10s of minutes for a project to load, it was relatively snappy. My next job I started usi", "context": "", "use_case": ".NET development", "switched_from": "Visual Studio", "story": "No More JetBrains Products for Me"}, {"id": 767196274, "item_id": 47949767, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949767", "by": "giancarlostoro", "date": "2026-04-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "other than maybe Rider but that's due to C# nuances I needed to work with", "excerpt": "Congrats to the Zed team for building the best modern editor I have ever used. I subscribe to the monthly plan just to give you guys the funding you need, even if my funding is a tiny drop in the bucket. I always wanted a feature rich alternative to Sublime Text that can run anywhere and do basically anything I need from it. 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I\u2019m", "context": ".NET developer on Windows", "use_case": ".NET development", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"}, {"id": 747249458, "item_id": 46703091, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46703091", "by": "alkonaut", "date": "2026-01-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Rider and VS", "excerpt": "All of this might as well be greek to me. I use ChatGPT and copy paste code snippets. Which was bleeding edge a year or two ago, and now it feels like banging rocks together when reading these types of articles. I never had any luck integrating agents, MCP, using tools etc. Like if I'm not ready to jump on some AI-spiced up special IDE, am I then going to just be left banging rocks together? 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(January 2026)"}, {"id": 735716946, "item_id": 45982309, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982309", "by": "bhubert", "date": "2025-11-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Rider as IDE, but there are multiple other options.", "excerpt": "I use .NET at $job, and have been running arch for the last few years, without any problems. I also have two collegues using Apple silicon, also no problems there. The official aspnet core web framework is (in my opinion) good enough that you don't need anything 3rd party. The GUI story is not a good one though, and if I were to write a GUI program I'd reach for Avalonia (3rd party, free). I use Rider as IDE, but the", "context": "uses .NET at work, runs Arch", "use_case": ".NET IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": "Programming the Commodore 64 with .NET"}, {"id": 734376481, "item_id": 45898530, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898530", "by": "Arisaka1", "date": "2025-11-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Linux on my desktop and Rider for my IDE", "excerpt": "Every time I read about new .NET version improvements I always remember my attempt to get a job using this stack in my local job market (Greece), where .NET Framework is super prevalent, majorly used by classic companies that don't even give you a fair technical chance if you lack a degree, and the devs are considered to be a cost center. I really, REALLY wish I was in another timeline where I could say in an intervi", "context": "job seeker in Greece", "use_case": "C# development IDE", "switched_from": "", "story": ".NET 10"}, {"id": 734243968, "item_id": 45890248, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45890248", "by": "nozzlegear", "date": "2025-11-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Rider\u2020 daily to write F# and C# on my Mac. It works great, I have no issues with it.", "excerpt": "I use Rider\u2020 daily to write F# and C# on my Mac. It works great, I have no issues with it. It even handles the .NET Framework 4.8 code\u2021 that I maintain without any issues thanks to Mono. \u2020 And Neovim occasionally, but I mostly use it for Typescript or anything that isn't F#/C#. \u2021 https://github.com/nozzlegear/shopifysharp", "context": "F#/C# developer on Mac", "use_case": "F# and C# development", "switched_from": "", "story": ".NET 10"}]}