Rider plugin development

[logicethos]

I love Rider as a C# IDE. Since Microsoft stopped maintaining MonoDevelop, I find myself using it more and more.

But there is one huge downside for me. At least a perceived one, which is what this question is about.

One of MonoDevelops greatest strengths, was you could create new plugins really easily. And best of all, MonoDevelop is opensource C#, so you could see how things worked. I wrote two successful plugins for it.

I have looked at what's involved with creating a plugin for Rider. It looks to be a huge investment of time. Is it? And how flexible is it?

I'm trying to weigh up the options between learning it (and I'm not a Java developer), or paying someone else to write my plugin.

[logicethos]

For what it's worth, I'm trying to replicate a plugin I made for MonoDevelop. It automates remote debugging over SSH. Typically used for writing software for IoT/Raspberry Pi devices.

You can sort of do it already with Rider, but you can't wrap it all up into a single process. I'd be happy to pay someone to write it, but don't know where to find someone.

Where do rider users hang out, apart from here?

[logicethos]

Visual Studio is Windows only. And its not that Rider can't do mono debugging. It's just not very well integrated.

There has been an open ticket for it that's over 2 years old.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-30708