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I could more or less agree with most of it apart from

> arguably the best dev IDE available (Visual Studio) and one of the best up-and-coming dev text editors (VS Code)

https://www.jetbrains.com/resharper/documentation/comparison...

Refactoring, Coding assistance, Navigation & search sections being most important.

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Yeah, if I had a dollar for every time I had to restart Visual Studio in order to get something to work...especially test debugging. But IntelliJ always works perfectly. Must say that I can't wait for Jetbrains' Rider to come out.

Yeah, same here. I can't count the amount of times I heard statements like that one (also about Eclipse) and was puzzled. I'm starting to think that people saying this just haven't had the curiosity to really explore the alternatives. That said, even though VS causes me to cringe pretty constantly when I use it, you have to give props to MS for the language integration tools they put together for .NET. Some of the tricks they managed to come up with (like moving the instruction pointer in a method while debugging) is pretty impressive. Unfortunately, every time I get amazed by something like this, either some blatantly stupid behavior of VS destroys the magic again, or it outright crashes. Sigh.

I couldn't agree more. I constantly see this claim made about Visual Studio. I find it to be in the way most of the time. It does sound like most of the features that I want are in Resharper; I'll have to try it out.

You will never, ever look back.

Although the last version I used seriously was VS2013, VS on its own is pretty mediocre. With ReSharper though, nothing beats it in my opinion.

On the other hand I've been using Eclipse and IntelliJ for the past year. Eclipse is not even worth talking about but even IntelliJ does not come close to vanilla VS in terms of usability. Again, my opinion.

What is better than VS? PHPStorm etc?

I actually can't name anything better. I was just saying that whilst VS is "the best", the best isn't really that great (without a plugin from Jetbrains)...

Yes, it will be interesting to see what the JetBrains C# IDE is like when it's released.

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