[solarkraft]

> Rider can be pretty heavy but Apple Silicon eats it up. (And to be fair to Rider, it was still pretty good even on Intel machines).

Rider (like all JetBrains IDEs) gobbles RAM and sometimes needs its time to think.

But what makes it so, so much better than Visual Studio (besides a minimum of effort spent on usable design) is that it doesn't randomly completely lock up the UI for several (sometimes tens) of seconds.

Unlike Microsoft apparently, they know not to do their heavy computation on the UI thread.

[ComputerGuru]

I haven’t had VS lock up on me in ages. Probably since version 2019. A ton of work has been done to move everything out-of-process (and in doing so, make it async) and remove synchronous hooks.

Are you using 3rd party extensions? ReSharper? Lots of badly written (even tiny extensions that you’d think would be basically no-ops) can make VS lock up again.

[biglyburrito]

The startup time of JetBrains Rider is so nice & quick. Going back to using Visual Studio 2022 after two years on the latest Rider version felt sluggish in a bunch of ways.

[ygra]

This hasn't been my experience lately. Are you perhaps comparing VS 2022 with Resharpen against Rider? Stock VS 2022 is quite a bit faster than Rider for me. And for the missing refactorings there is Roslynator.

[scns]

Thats crazy. VS is written in C++ and Rider in Java.

[solarkraft]

It turns out that you can have badly architected software in "fast" languages and well architected software in "slow" ones.

[hailruda]

Most of Visual Studio is written in C# since VS2010. [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Studio#2010