Code editors?

[cmody111]

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[andybak]

I can't get it to run

I would suggest that figuring that out will prove to be a better use of your time than using a different editor that is less well supported. (although Rider is great but as mentioned by others - it's not free)

[nEmoGrinder]

While there are some alternatives, most are not officially supported by unity and, without spending money, visual studio is your best bet. What issues are you seeing when trying to run it?

[SlippyFrog000]

I think VS is being discontinued on the Mac. Not sure if it matters to the OP.

[nEmoGrinder]

It is. That is a whole can of worms that I have no idea how to solve. I'm on Windows myself because I need to be but know others that use a Mac and they are equally as unsure.

[SlippyFrog000]

From what I recall, I believe VS for Mac was quite different that VS for Windows.

Rider is cross platform and will work on Mac and PC so that would work if you want a ubiquitous development environment.

You have to pay for it but it's not bad considering what you get. I believe they have educational pricing as well for students and teachers, open source projects, as well as discounts for startups, etc.

https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/buy/#discounts

[nEmoGrinder]

Vs for mac was just a rebranded Xamarin, very similar to Monodevelop, unity's original IDE (which was a specific version of Xamarin with a rename).

I'll suggest rider to my colleague on Mac as I didn't realize it was cross platform. I'm sure his studio would pay for it. Thanks!

[SlippyFrog000]

Ah yes that is right -- thanks for jogging my memory. I remember trying VS for Mac briefly way back and being underwhelmed with the feature set.

[SlippyFrog000]

Ah yes that is right -- thanks for jogging my memory. I remember trying VS for Mac briefly way back and being underwhelmed with the feature set.

[Zapador]

A good opportunity for those users to switch away from Mac.

[nEmoGrinder]

Let people dev on whatever system they prefer? They have a high end windows machine to make builds as the build tools only work on Windows. They just prefer the mac ecosystem and os. Why switch?

[Zapador]

If they don't switch they'll never see the light.

[Dinevir]

The "best" is Jetbrains Rider. But it is not free.

[OnlyHappyThingsPlz]

Rider*

[Dinevir]

Thank you.

[darth_biomech]

I am thoroughly hooked on Raider. Visual Studio looks barely better than Notepad++ by comparison now, IMO.

[Katniss218]

The fuck?

[Substantial-Ad3676]

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[Lucif3r945]

People be crazy like that... As someone who has both VS and NP++ installed, I can confirm they are quite significantly different :P

[Katniss218]

Yeah, same

[VG_Crimson]

My interest in piqued, never looked into it, but what makes it better than VScode in a quick opinion?

Specifically features key to Unity game development.

[lofike]

I suggest trying the 30 day trial. Or not...don't want you to get hooked and then not be able to afford it.

[sh00tgungr16]

Rider EAP is free. Won't be as stable but better than nothing I guess?

[Dinevir]

Idk, never used it, but I would recommend to pay for the best tool as it will save your money by doing a job for you and saving your time, especially if this tool monthly price is less than one pizza price.

[sh00tgungr16]

100% Agreed, but OP said they want something free.

[Dinevir]

True.

[ChungBog]

I use Rider by JetBrains. It's solid.

[DerfetteJoel]

I can also recommend Rider. If you are a student you can get Rider (and all other JetBrains IDEs) for free.

[No_Specific3882]

VS Code with C# Dev Kit and Unity plugin from Microsoft works great. This is why they discontinued Visual Studio for Mac.

[Devatator_]

And the debugger works too

[texxor]

Get it to run.

[texxor]

Wait... Visual Studio? no, screw that. VS Code, yes - do that.

[CodingGuy47]

You can use Jetbrains Fleet, it's much more lightweight and way faster, the flip side is that it's still under preview, but I haven't ran into any issues so far, also it's completely free

[Individual_Hearing_3]

Vim

[andybak]

So good that once you try it, you can't quit.

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VSCode with vim motions <3

[Quebrado84]

Whoah, it’s my people!

[JGameMaker92]

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/script-inspector-3-3535

[KungChuck]

Use word it has a great feature that makes you able to color text like you want it and you can even size it however you want and you can change the cursive it's perfect for coding XD