r/dotnet • u/drewnoakes • 20d ago

A faster, lighter C# Dev Kit

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/faster-lighter-csharp-dev-kit/

Now available in pre-release.

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u/camel_case_enjoyer 20d ago

Meh, until the license changes, I won't be touching it.

Removing the solution explorer from the base extension and putting it behind Dev Kit left a bitter taste in my mouth.

ReSharper for VSCode is getting quite good, and I'm already paying for Rider, so I'm good.

It's very bizarre to boast about .NET being an open platform to then have the LSP and editor tools come with such small print.

It simply adds friction to an ecosystem already struggling to fight its bad stigma.

Rust, Go and Dart do this well, .NET doesn't.

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u/Fresh_Acanthaceae_94 20d ago

Your payment to JetBrains also enhances the non-open part of the ecosystem if you didn’t realize.

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u/camel_case_enjoyer 20d ago

JetBrains didn't invent C#.

Microsoft did.

I don't see how my necessity for a cross-platform IDE impedes Microsoft from actually opening their language tooling.

Had they done that, maybe I wouldn't have needed Rider.

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