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What is Rider?

JetBrains supports .NET development with Rider, a .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper.

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Improve of speed on game development.

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Luiz WendtView profile
Software Engineer in Engineering at Timberline (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Rider for game development in Unreal. There are other development platforms for Unreal but Rider with the new support for Unreal really helped make the development more agile and proved to be the most reliable one. The two main features that other platforms lack are IntelliSense considering Unreal Macros and quick searches, but all the other tools within the platform are great.

Pros

  • IntelliSense
  • Quick Search.
  • Debugging
  • Code versioning Integrations.
  • Extendable plugins.
  • Forum for issues with answer from the developers.

Cons

  • Startup time. It takes a while to index big projects.
  • Rarely it loses the intellisense and the only way to get it back is by restarting.
  • Memory usage for big projects

Most Important Features

  • Unreal IntelliSense.
  • Quick indexing.
  • Perforce integration.

Return on Investment

  • Improve agility of development.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio IDE and Sublime Text

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Atlassian Jira, Perforce Helix Core, GitHub, Unreal Engine

Rider is great, best Visual Studio replacement

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Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

JetBrains Rider is a leaner, smarter version of Visual Studio. It is faster while at the same time demands less from your computer. I have mainly used it for developing .Net websites and used it for Vue frontends. It just works without having to find suitable extensions or plugins. They do have good plugins for the cases where you need them. Just a great option, highly recommend.

Pros

  • Loads fast
  • Builds fast
  • Nice default support of frontend frameworks

Cons

  • With the new 2025 version of rider, I have seen it becoming slow in typescript heavy applications

Return on Investment

  • Built in Resharper into the license fee, great, you likely want it
  • Demands less resources from computer so needing a beefy work computer might not be the case, save money on equipment.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Eclipse

Other Software Used

Figma, Postman, Optimizely Content Management System

Still an up to date tool to have

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

JetBrains Rider is yet one of the best IDEs in the market, mainly regarding its suggestion on good practices if it is either a visual cue on an early out or suggestions to reduce branching of things like that. That in general is the main reason why I recommend JetBrains Rider for beginners. It has a nice auto-complete feature that helps learners spend more time thinking about their problem then about the language or other details.

Pros

  • Auto-complete
  • Improvement suggestions
  • Nice visual cue for things that can be improved
  • Well integrated with GitHub Copilot

Cons

  • Things are starting to get slower as the IDE grows
  • Blazor integration is a bit lacky
  • Blazor hot reload could be automatically applied instead of having to click on Apply link/button.

Return on Investment

  • Help reduce mistakes while giving good improvement suggestion
  • Reduce refactoring time
  • Nicer iteration time with find references tab

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visual Studio and Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Other Software Used

Notepad++, OneNote, Microsoft Visual Studio

Rider and Unity: A Great Combination

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Rajan TandeView profile
Chief Technology Officer in Engineering at Magic Fuel Games (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Useful C# refactoring suggestions with indications of which options are available for different versions of the C# language
  • Deep understanding of the Unity game engine, which means that Rider can flag potential problems such as being careful with the use of the null coalescing and null propagation/conditional operators on types that derive from UnityEngine.Object.
  • Good searching and navigation facilities make it easier to understand unfamiliar code.

Cons

  • Rider is slower to start up than, for example, Visual Studio Code so I do find myself using Code for quick edits to files.
  • Rider does appear to be more resource-intensive than Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio.

Return on Investment

  • Writing clearer C# code based on refactoring suggestions
  • Avoiding some obscure bugs that Rider has flagged in the IDE that would have taken a lot of time and effort to find and fix through testing
  • Cost of licenses, though the benefits outweigh the costs

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio IDE

Usability

Other Software Used

Perforce, Jira Software, Atlassian Confluence

It has a lot more value than you may think

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used it instead of Visual Studio and it’s just perfect. You will never regret paying for the service. It makes your life super easy, from suggestions to database connection to all the plugins it provides. It made everyone on the team work complete tasks faster and with better quality of code

Pros

  • It’s very fast and the UI/UX part makes it very comfortable to use
  • It’s cross platform so you can find on Linux and macOS also
  • It analyses your code exceptionally well and provides very useful feedback
  • Debugging is just another level compared to Visual Studio, it’s just incredible

Cons

  • I think there could be more .net related plugins
  • More theme options like on vscode would be welcome
  • Would be great if you could write C++ for Unreal Engine

Most Important Features

  • It’s cheap for what it provides. Their year on year contract renewal discounts are much appreciated.
  • It makes developers code and debug faster so there is less time waiting, and more action
  • They implement new features fast so with each new .NET release you do not have to wait a long time, which helped us with .NET 6 LTS
  • For web application it has everything you may ever need from typescript to SQL, even Razor related stuff. Works great with Blazor too

Return on Investment

  • Developers are happier, a lot less stress.
  • Development process went much faster than before.
  • Ability to code .NET on Linux without fear of blue screen

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Visual Studio Code

Other Software Used

IntelliJ IDEA, Podman.io, Fedora Linux

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