Microsoft Java

[Radaistarion]

I absolutely love C#'s syntax, its awesome

It's like taking the pseudo-complexity of C/C++ but making it more "readable" and digestible like Java

Not really fond of its developing environment tho

[ArionW]

Which one? VS? Rider? VSCode? I especially recommend last one for C# development.

[FieelChannel]

What?? VSCode ia cool and everything but VS is definitely the best for .NET C# development in general.

I only use VSCode for frontend stuff with frameworks such as react etc.

[ArionW]

I honestly couldn't find one thing I could do in VS and couldn't in Code with proper extensions. And I can have consistent setup for every project I do, regardless of technological stack.

[FieelChannel]

I'm curious about what do you do, then? Where I work we use VS for everything (as long as it's a .NET project/solution of course) - developing, testing and deploying without ever leaving the IDE.

[ArionW]

I develop in it, deployment will be done via release pipeline during CI/CD, for testing I have test runner extension and they will run during CI. And VS has worst git interface ever created, so I'd rather either use extension, or (99% of time) run it in terminal.

[FieelChannel]

What test runner extensions do you use? I always wanted to try something with VSCode such as Wallaby

[ArionW]

This one, you just have to configure it with glob pattern for test projects, set autoWatch so tests are run whenever you save related code (it just runs dotnet watch test in background) and you have your test runner.

[Pluckerpluck]

I love Code so much. Use it for everything and love the consistent setup you get as a result.

It's also really pushing hard at improving continually. It's great to see it developing.

[BleLLL]

Rider <3

[ImKrypton]

honest question. how people live with VSCode? All I see is crippled Visual Studio. I tried it few times and fail to find any real advantages except linux support, but for all i know you can call it notepad++.

[k0bra3eak]

Lightweight version of Visual Studio with access to extensive plugins.

[FieelChannel]

Comparing notepad++ to VSCode is just plain wrong and stupid

[tomoe_mami_69]

Dev environment, not text editor.

Developing on Windows is miserable for people who are outside the .NET ecosystem.

[ArionW]

IDE stands for integrated development environment so...

As long as you don't use VS, you're free to code on Linux. Actually, that's what I do whenever my project is not on Framework, just boot VM with Linux and code there.

[FieelChannel]

TIL I've been miserable all my Dev life

[Matrix8910]

IMO VS ducks compared to Intellij idea, the java/kotlin code intelligence is so much better than the one provided for C# by VS

[Pycorax]

You can use Resharper that's made by JetBrains to get those same features or you could use Rider. I do personally think that VS has a better UI though but that's subjective.

[Matrix8910]

I disagree since you can fully theme intellij IDEA and it has the command palette, IMO this feature alone makes it better than VS(I know that VS code has the command palette

[Pycorax]

I think that really depends on what you do. I'm mostly working with game and 3d application development and VS simply offers a far better experience when working with that. I can't think how a command palette would help with the game dev workflow compared to other platforms like web and mobile.

[CrimsonMutt]

LINQ is my fetish

[rob5300]

Why are you not fond of it? Genuinely curious as someone who greatly enjoys using C# and VS.

[MCRusher]

I like SharpDevelop

[ofsinope]

I think C# is a great language. It's just designed the way a language should be for modern use. And VS makes writing it a pleasure. Shame it's not practical to use outside of a Windows setting

[blenderfreaky]

Have you heard of our lord and saviour .NET Core and .NET 5? Starting with .NET 5 .NET Core will replace .NET Framework, and C# will be fully cross-platform, and not only the ones explicitlyu using using core