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by LandR 2461 days ago
Visual studio crashes and hangs on me multiple times a day. Rider is just solid.
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Visual Studio does this for me a lot as well, especially when projects become larger. The number of times the typeahead caused the app to hang is too numerous to count.

Part of me misses .NET, but I've been mostly working with Golang and Node lately. Visual Studio Code is pretty stellar. Maybe someday VS will catch up to VSC. :)

I also have problems with VS resource usage. It appears to depend on what file type the focussed tab has open. It's still 32-bit, which can't help.

Never had perf issues with VSC, which is surprising considering it's web tech. It's a different class of app to VS but much nicer to use, and of course it's cross platform.

I haven't used VS in about 2 years now, so this experience may be too many versions out of date to be relevant anymore, but for a while I had very similar problems. And then I uninstalled ReSharper, and VS all of a sudden became very snappy.
You can get most of snappiness back even with ReSharper installed. If you dig into the ReSharper option menu, under "Product and feature", and untick everything in the feature section except "Navigation and search", you still get the amazing refactoring and writing-code support but without your computer slows to crawl speed.
I try to avoid anything by Jetbrains, as the process of reporting bugs and trying to get show-stopping bugs fixed has been a nightmare with them. This was during their RC phase of Rider, where I had a number of bugs. They went ahead and shipped it to full release (where it was no longer free of charge) without fixing a single one of the bugs I reported and even followed up on. What is the point of an RC beta test if you are so behind on bug fixes that you're not even able to triage all incoming reports? Seems like it should still be called beta at that point.

To their credit, I've had great experiences with RubyMine, but that was the exception to the rule for my experiences with Jetbrains IDEs.

Edit: Before anyone else downvotes, I'll point out that I realize this is not the experience others have had, but I was not exaggerating these claims.

That’s about the opposite experience that I’ve had, they’ve always been quick to respond and resolve my reported issues, they’ve even created tickets themselves when I’ve reported them over Twitter.
This bug has been open for 3 years (and not touched for 2 years). It's stuff like this you see everywhere: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/RIDER-3461