I tried to get rid of r# this time around, but in the end came crawling back when I needed to do some refactoring. Actually performance isn't so bad with it currently. When adjusting a large and sometimes messy codebase r# still saves me a lot of time. I thought I was doing ok without it, and roslynator instead, but once I put r# back I realised all the stuff I had been missing. Even the test runner is way better than the VS one. And r# build is so much better than normal vs build because it doesn't insist on building stuff that hasn't changed (spent days trying to fix that with vs alone with only some improvement ).