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What is the difference between Rider and Resharper?

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Rider is an IDE that replaces Visual Studio and includes the resharper engine built in.

Resharper is a plug-in that is hosted by Visual Studio.

Resharper in Rider is pretty much the same as in VS, but in Rider it is native and always feels snappier to me.

VS + Resharper is painfully slow. Rider is refreshingly fast.

I recently upgraded my laptop and finally VS with Resharper is blazingly fast.

My old laptop was a an 8th gen i7 with SSD and 32GB of RAM.

New one is a 13th gen i7 with an NVMe and 64GB of RAM.

I suspect the biggest difference is the NVMe. It probably also helps that I’m using Windows 11’s Dev Drive where I’ve enabled all the policies mentioned in their docs to minimise the impact of Windows Defender.

And finally, so much RAM means Windows gets to keep a lot of my working files cached.

Certainly any poorly configure av scanners will turn even the best computers into a heaping pile of garbage. A lot of people abandoned windows development not because the platforms were bad, but because corporate av policy was always scan everything and the performance became unbelievably slow. Now, it's so extreme, you can't enev get a windows (or shocked, Linux) requisition in so many dev shops.

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