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by admnor 3804 days ago
Finally, a proper C# IDE on not-Windows. I've been working with ASP.NET 5 on Linux for the last year and Sublime, Atom, VSCode, etc. are all painful. Sublime is surely dead, and anything based on Electron kills my 2-core CPU and my battery. I was in the talk here at NDC London where they demo'd Rider, and I can confirm that it is very fast and he showed the Mac process view and it was barely hitting the CPU, even with a JVM and a Mono VM running. And when it's all running on .NET Core it should be even faster.

Great days.
1 comments
mariusmg 3804 days ago
MonoDevelop is cross platform and decent.

"And when it's all running on .NET Core it should be even faster." The IDE is written in Java and obviously runs on the JVM.

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admnor 3804 days ago
As I said in the comment you were commenting on, there is a JVM and a Mono VM. The IDE is running as two processes, one on the JVM (running the IntelliJ shell) and one on, currently, a Mono VM (running the ReSharper engine). They use IPC with a custom protocol to send UI events and ViewModel updates between the processes.
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gorohoroh 3804 days ago
Frontend is in Java (and Kotlin), indeed, as it's a part of the IntelliJ platform. However, the backend that actually provides IDE features for C# is written in .NET. The backend is actually the same ReSharper logic that runs in Visual Studio but in headless mode.
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winterbe 3804 days ago
Wondering how much code in Intellij Ultimate is already written in Kotlin. Parts of Kotlin Code in Intellij Community Edition is still kinda low:

https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/search?l=kot...

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insulanian 3804 days ago
MonoDevelop is far from decent IMO. See my other comment for detailed complaints.
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jen20 3804 days ago
The UI is in the JVM, the back end is hosted on Mono when on non-windows platforms at the moment.
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