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Comment by MagicWishMonkey | Hacker News Reader

I wish MS would release a stripped down version of VS for OSX/Linux, but I know it probably won't happen.

Visual Studio Code is pretty neat, and it's plugin system is very powerful: more and more languages are adding amazing IntelliSense and interactive debugging support for it. It's like Atom, if Atom was faster and focused on exposing nice APIs for autocompletion!

Does this count? https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/code-vs.aspx

I've played with VS Code a bit, it's a pretty cool tool for small scale scripting, but it's not really a replacement for a full fledged IDE.

Hopefully Jetbrains will release their cross platform C# IDE sometime soon. I would prefer Visual Studio, but I don't think that's going to happen (at least not anytime soon).

From my experience, Rider is pretty stable and usable. Have you tried it out at all? https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/

Oh, didn't realize you could request early access. I'll check it out, thanks.

Not being fully fledged IDE can be good and bad. I'm using VSCode for most things I use VS for. It's super fast to launch, great language extensions, debugger, integrated terminal and tasks. It's like sublime and visual studio had a baby. I have licenses for jet brains but I seldom ever use it.

I may also be a bit biased since I contribute to VScode extensions. But I see that as a positive. I use a free editor that I can hack, look at its source and collaborate in the open.

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