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JetBrains Rider vs Visual Studio Code: What are the differences?
JetBrains Rider: A cross-platform .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper. It supports .NET Framework, the new cross-platform .NET Core, and Mono based projects. This lets you develop a wide array of applications including .NET desktop applications, services and libraries, Unity games, Xamarin apps, ASP.NET and; Visual Studio Code: Build and debug modern web and cloud applications, by Microsoft. Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
JetBrains Rider can be classified as a tool in the "Integrated Development Environment" category, while Visual Studio Code is grouped under "Text Editor".
Visual Studio Code is an open source tool with 79.4K GitHub stars and 11.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Visual Studio Code's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Visual Studio Code has a broader approval, being mentioned in 1135 company stacks & 2385 developers stacks; compared to JetBrains Rider, which is listed in 6 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
Visual Studio Code became famous over the past 3+ years I believe. The clean UI, easy to use UX and the plethora of integrations made it a very easy decision for us. Our gripe with Sublime was probably only the UX side. VSCode has not failed us till now, and still is able to support our development env without any significant effort.
Goland being paid, as well as built only for Go seemed like a significant limitation to not consider it.
I decided to choose VSCode over Sublime text for my Systems Programming class in C. What I love about VSCode is its awesome ability to add extensions. Intellisense is a beautiful debugger, and Remote SSH allows me to login and make real-time changes in VSCode to files on my university server. This is an awesome alternative to going back and forth on pushing/pulling code and logging into servers in the terminal. Great choice for anyone interested in C programming!
Pros of JetBrains Rider
- Debug & Trace support3
- ReSharper for VS bundled3
- NuGet package manager2
- Runs on Linux2
- Free for Open Source projects2
- SQL editing tools2
- Intellisense2
- Solution-wide refactoring2
- 64-bit process2
- Refactoring support2
Pros of Visual Studio Code
- Powerful multilanguage IDE327
- Fast293
- Front-end develop out of the box185
- Support TypeScript IntelliSense152
- Very basic but free137
- Git integration117
- Intellisense101
- Faster than Atom74
- Better ui, easy plugins, and nice git integration48
- Great Refactoring Tools41
- Good Plugins40
- Terminal38
- Superb markdown support36
- Open Source34
- Extensions28
- Awesome UI26
- Large & up-to-date extension community25
- Powerful and fast22
- Portable20
- Best code editor17
- Best editor16
- Easy to get started with15
- Built on Electron14
- Good for begginers14
- Open, cross-platform, fast, monthly updates14
- Crossplatform14
- Lots of extensions13
- All Languages Support13
- Extensions for everything12
- Extensible11
- Useful for begginer11
- Ui design is great11
- Easy to use and learn11
- Faster edit for slow computer11
- Totally customizable11
- Git out of the box10
- "fast, stable & easy to use"10
- Great language support9
- Great community9
- It has terminal and there are lots of shortcuts in it9
- Fast Startup8
- Powerful Debugger8
- SSH support8
- Works With Almost EveryThing You Need8
- Can compile and run .py files7
- Python extension is fast7
- Great document formater7
- Features rich7
- Awesome multi cursor support6
- She is not Rachel6
- He is not Michael6
- VSCode.pro Course makes it easy to learn5
- Extension Echosystem5
- Language server client5
- Easy azure5
- SFTP Workspace5
- Very proffesional4
- Has better support and more extentions for debugging4
- Excellent as git difftool and mergetool3
- Supports lots of operating systems3
- Virtualenv integration3
- 'batteries included'3
- Has more than enough languages for any developer3
- Emmet preinstalled3
- CMake support with autocomplete2
- More tools to integrate with vs2
- VS Code Server: Browser version of VS Code2
- Fast and ruby is built right in2
- Better autocompletes than Atom2
- Light2
- Microsoft1
- Big extension marketplace1
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Cons of JetBrains Rider
- Costs money1
Cons of Visual Studio Code
- Slow startup43
- Resource hog at times26
- Poor refactoring20
- Poor UI Designer13
- Microsoft12
- Weak Ui design tools11
- Poor autocomplete10
- Poor in PHP7
- Huge cpu usage with few installed extension6
- Poor at Python5
- Super Slow5
- Poor intellisense. poor java4
- Microsoft sends telemetry data4
- Poor in Python3
- No Built in Browser Preview3
- Dilshad3
- No color Intergrator3
- No built in live Preview3
- Very basic for java development and buggy at times3
- Bad Plugin Architecture2
- It's MicroSoft1
- Electron1
- Terminal does not identify path vars sometimes1
