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Assuming you're doing .NET development, have you looked at JetBrains Rider?

I haven't spent much time with it myself but a lot of my colleagues swear by it even on Windows.

Rider on Mac is head and shoulders above VS for Windows, and the speed is addictive on the M1 Macs.

Visual Studio proper has gotten considerably faster with VS2022, though I doubt it compares to anything running natively on Apple Silicon.

I have to use VS2022 for legacy projects. People say it’s faster. It’s not. Compared to Rider it’s like being on dialup again.

This. We use Rider daily on our M1s. I used to be a big fan of Visual Studio, but really loving Rider and it works as great on the Mac as it does Windows (assuming you're not working with legacy NET Framework). The only bugs we ever really run into is around Docker on the M1s, but with the current releases everything is working fine.

Do you know where support for WinUI 3 is with Rider? Been working on a little Windows utility in C#/WinUI, and VS2022 is… meh. It works but it doesn't jive with my brain as well as Xcode or something IntelliJ-based does, probably because my background has zero MS platform dev in it.

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