Comment by maccard
3 months ago
I use rider on Mac (and windows to be fair) and i think the experience is better than visual studio on windows.
My biggest gripe with dotnet tooling is dotnet format. It’s not quick enough to use on a pre commit hook, so people don’t run it regularly and we get failures for it.
It’s such a small nit, dotnet is a great environment to work in
Off topic but what is the name supposed to reference with Rider? I get that it’s a play on “writer” but what does riding have to do with anything?
> "Legend has it that the name Rider comes from ReSharper IDE, but since Ride didn’t sound great, it became Rider.
— We haven’t found the source for this story yet."
From https://blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2022/08/03/happy-5th-birth...
I suppose it's word play, as usual in JetBrains product names. *(See) Sharp rider", that is, an expert rider (of a horse, or a bike).
Dotnet format is truly slow and bad. I wish the team focused on improving it, and working on better LSP support
Have you tried csharpier? It's got some wrinkles but kept things pretty consistent.