as an aside, if you got Rider as part of your resharper subscription, try it out, it is basically a drop in replacement for visual studio but faster and with many many little quality of life improvements you never knew you needed :)
I've found it quite problematic to reliably connect to private NuGet feeds though which is a bit of a pain.
Right now SSDT and some ancient Linq2Sql stuff is the only thing I still find myself needing VS for.
It's faster yes, but seems to be a bit more memory hungry out of the gate than VS+Resharper.
There is one HUGE thing I miss however - the Package Manager console. There's still a few things I have to do in there and thus have to switch back to VS.
I can't do the equivalent of
update-package -reinstall
A forced package restore doesn't quite do the same thing. (I'm really glad Rider has that feature though!)
Add-BindingRedirect (would be extra handy since Rider doesn't handle redirects at all [1])
How can a IntelliJ Idea derivative written in Java be faster than VistalStudio which is native code? Both Idea and PyCharm work much slower than VisualStudio on my machine.
In my own experience in migrating servers from 32 to 64-bit on Linux 12 years ago, 64-bit was around 10-20% slower than the 32-bit build. Dont how itd fare today (no longer at that job). Even though performance was demonstrably slower, 64-bit it was due to edict from the CEO.
For what its worth, neither of the services I was responsible benefited from the extra address space. Mem usage for bother services peaked at around 750 MB.
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/ricom/revisit...
Microsoft has also pushed since VS 2008 (!) for plug-ins and extensions to use an out-of-process model. I think ReSharper got the message in summer 2019 that it might be a good idea – and incidentally, a lot of their performance comparison of Rider vs. VS comes down to "Rider uses ReSharper in another process, so the IDE doesn't slow down when ReSharper does things", while they themselves still pursued the slower model in VS. Heck, until a few releases ago ReSharper was still using the old synchronous COM APIs for querying the solution after loading, leading to severe pauses when opening a solution or re-loading it after switching source control states.
Vanilla VS is plenty fast and not that memory-hungry. In my experience it's extensions that try to sync with IDE state where a lot of the waiting comes in and in-process extensions where a lot of the memory usage comes from.
I also never liked ReSharper, the performance drop versus vanilla VS isn't worth it.
I'd also say that Rider is more stable - I've only ever seen issues with preview versions; the production versions are solid, which can't be said for Visual Studio.
I was a Visual Studio fanboi for many years before discovering Rider, so wouldn't be easily swayed - please, try it and see for yourself!
A similar thing makes me go nuts in Windows as well - in Windows 7 I pressed the WinKey and started typing immediately to find an application, never had a problem, but Windows 10 often misses the first few keystrokes after the Start menu opens. I can't believe this hasn't been fixed for years.
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EDIT: fixed a typo