Any IDE recomendationes besides VS Code?

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Hello!

Can any of you recommend a free IDE which offers autocomplete for Unity?
I am kind of tired of having to spend 30 minutes of checking a 100 line code, because I made some spelling mistake like writing a capital letter instead of a small one.

I already tried Consulo, but it has a bug where it cannot find the Unity IDE, so it is a useful as writing on a piece of paper.
Besides that I found some guides on adding highlights and autocomplete to Notepad++, but the guides are for older versions of Unity, which have an unattainable at the moment xml file.

TL;DR; Can anyone offer a free to use IDE, which offers autocomplete and hopefully highlights for Unity and is not VSCode?

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I’ve been using Visual Studio Community 2019 with 2020.2 and it’s been great (minor gripes and occasional crashes aside)… btw, you haven’t mentioned which OS you’re using.

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Sorry about that. I am using Windows 7.

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Same here - if you haven’t tried it already, Community edition is free and definitely worth a look.
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

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I use and highly recommend Script Inspector 3. Turns Unity into a true IDE; no external editor needed. It literally changed my life the day I discovered it.

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I’m just curious… Why not VS Code? I find the syntax highlighting and error detection works great on both Windows and macOS.