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PostSharp vs Ionide: What are the differences?
Developers describe PostSharp as "Allows developers to eradicate boilerplate by offloading repeating work from humans to machines". It adds design patterns and thread safety to C# and VB so you can avoid boilerplate and focus on business value. On the other hand, Ionide is detailed as "A Visual Studio Code package suite for cross platform F# development". It includes all the necessary features you’d find in a modern IDE - autocomplete, tooltips, document formatting, syntax and error highlighting, and many more.
PostSharp and Ionide are primarily classified as "Language Extensions" and "Tools for Text Editors" tools respectively.
Some of the features offered by PostSharp are:
- Logging: complete revamping
- Caching: a brand new feature
- Filled gaps in support for async methods
On the other hand, Ionide provides the following key features:
- Syntax highlighting
- Error highlighting
- Autocomplete