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Do you have one or two points why you like Rider more than VS? Honest curiosity. I never used Rider but i really like VS compared to other code editors (for other languages). To me it's the perfect match for anything .NET/C#.

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1. Rider provides really good linting and static code analysis out-of-the box. I've once opened my project that I've been developing in Visual Studio and it gave my a sh*load of actually useful hints on how to improve my code. 2. Typing is also much faster, once you get used to snippets your code just writes itself :) 3. Lots of built in tools, I just didn't even need to install any database management tool as the one built in in Rider is enough for my needs 4. I tend to use mouse in Visual Studio more. Don't know the exact reason, maybe it's because Rider gives a really powerful shortcuts like "Shift+Shift" and "alt+Enter" that are easy to remember and does most of the job.

But it may also be, that it's just because it works on Linux. I develop mostly for Linux servers and use Linux tools that obviously integrate better with Linux-based OS than on Windows. There is WSL, but still, experience is not that fluent.

Rider is for one significantly faster, it also has better solution analysis and refactorings due to it integrating all the resharper ones.

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