# Are There Any Alternative for Visual Studio ?
**URL:** https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523
**Category:** Scripting
**Tags:** Scripting
**Created:** [August 14, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523 "2019-08-14T21:26:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@tahsinXYZ](https://discussions.unity.com/u/tahsinXYZ)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2019, 9:26pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/1 "2019-08-14T21:26:57Z")
I don’t want to use Visual Studio, if there is a alternative.Are there any ?
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### Author:  [@LiterallyJeff](https://discussions.unity.com/u/LiterallyJeff)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/2 "2019-08-14T21:34:24Z")
Why don’t you want to use it?
Yes, there are alternatives. I use VS Code (free), many of my coworkers use Jetbrains Rider (paid), and there’s also SublimeText or any text editor with extensions/plugins for Unity debugging and intellisense/autocomplete.
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### Author:  [@Ryiah](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Ryiah)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2019, 9:37pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/3 "2019-08-14T21:37:37Z")
> [@tahsinXYZ](#):
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> Are there any ?
Your choices are limited if you want syntax highlighting and IntelliSense-like behaviour. Below are the ones I’m familiar with but there might be one or two others depending on whether someone has created extensions to support them. By far the most lightweight one is Script Inspector 3 as it’s literally an editor extension for Unity.
Visual Studio Code (different program from Visual Studio)
[https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity)
JetBrains Rider
[https://www.jetbrains.com/dotnet/promo/unity/](https://www.jetbrains.com/dotnet/promo/unity/)
Script Inspector 3
[https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/script-inspector-3-3535](https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/script-inspector-3-3535)
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### Author:  [@lordofduct](https://discussions.unity.com/u/lordofduct)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/4 "2019-08-14T21:49:22Z")
You are limited if you want intellisense and the sort… but C# is a pretty popular language and there are tons of editors out there that support it. They range in quality, price (often free/open-source), and all sorts. Just googling for “C# editor with intellisense” comes back with lots of resulsts:
[https://www.google.com/search?q=c%23+editor+with+intellisense&rlz=1C1GCEA\_enUS826US826&oq=C%23+editor+with+i&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l3j69i58.4280j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8](https://www.google.com/search?q=c%23+editor+with+intellisense&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS826US826&oq=C%23+editor+with+i&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l3j69i58.4280j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)
As to how good any of them are… well that’s subjective to you. I LOVE Visual Studio, and you don’t… so my suggestion of a specific one probably won’t meet your subjective opinion (though if you gave us an idea of what you’re looking for in an editor, and why you don’t like VS, that could help us narrow it).
I will say though, even with intellisense. One thing that most all of them will lack (outside of Visual Studio) is recognition of Unity messages. Which Visual Studio has a plugin to understand (of course any editor that will support a Visual Studio plugin like that could potentially work… I wouldn’t be surprised if Rider did this).
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### Author:  [@SparrowsNest](https://discussions.unity.com/u/SparrowsNest)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/5 "2019-08-14T22:10:47Z")
Why don’t you like VS? I mean sure, I loved MD when it was the standard for unity (shut up elitist, it’s minimal and fully functional for unity-needs), but there’s probably a setting in VS to make it right for you, question is again - **why** don’t you like it?
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### Author:  [@hlw](https://discussions.unity.com/u/hlw)
#### Post date: [August 15, 2019, 10:15am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/6 "2019-08-15T10:15:37Z")
If it’s not a license problem, you can try other versions of VS too, i had to go back to VS 2017 as the 2019 version was annoying me. I also sometimes use C# shell on android when i need to do small stuffs on the go (can’t really test it on unity directly tho)
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### Author:  [@tulkasbeto](https://discussions.unity.com/u/tulkasbeto)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 9:47pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/7 "2019-08-28T21:47:26Z")
porque no te gusta VS; lo primero el espacio, lo segundo la velocidad(tal vez ustedes no pero si intentas dar clases con un computador sin tarjeta gráfica, le quitas las sombras a los objetos y puedes trabajar, incluso sin tener openGL 3.0) consume mas de tu equipo a comparación de monodevelop.
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### Author:  [@SparrowsNest](https://discussions.unity.com/u/SparrowsNest)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2019, 9:58pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/8 "2019-08-28T21:58:24Z")
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### Author:  [@nobluff67](https://discussions.unity.com/u/nobluff67)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2020, 8:09pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/9 "2020-05-10T20:09:51Z")
> [@LiterallyJeff](#):
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> Why don’t you want to use it?
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> Yes, there are alternatives. I use **VS Code (free)**, many of my coworkers use Jetbrains Rider (paid), and there’s also SublimeText or any text editor with extensions/plugins for Unity debugging and intellisense/autocomplete.
> [@Ryiah](#):
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> Your choices are limited if you want syntax highlighting and IntelliSense-like behaviour. Below are the ones I’m familiar with but there might be one or two others depending on whether someone has created extensions to support them. By far the most lightweight one is Script Inspector 3 as it’s literally an editor extension for Unity.
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> **Visual Studio Code** (different program from Visual Studio)
> [https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/other/unity)
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> JetBrains Rider
> [https://www.jetbrains.com/dotnet/promo/unity/](https://www.jetbrains.com/dotnet/promo/unity/)
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> Script Inspector 3
> [https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/script-inspector-3-3535](https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/script-inspector-3-3535)
Thanks. Nice, works out the box. ms visual studio was throwing false errors on code, spent several hours looking for solutions, gave up and went for the suggested alternative rather.
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### Author:  [@Gold\_Rush](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Gold_Rush)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/10 "2020-11-27T19:06:07Z")
You can use SharpDevelop it have binary installator and it support Unity 2020 cproj files.
> **[SharpDevelop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SharpDevelop)**
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> SharpDevelop (also styled as #develop) is a discontinued free and open source integrated development environment (IDE) for the .NET Framework, Mono, Gtk# and Glade# platforms. It supports development in C#, Visual Basic .NET, Boo, F#, IronPython and IronRuby programming languages.
> The IDE can still be downloaded and continues to be used by developers working on C# .Net Framework projects. The last release of SharpDevelop was only aimed at C# projects. There was little significant development to ...
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### Author:  [@system](https://discussions.unity.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2024, 12:07am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/11 "2024-02-03T00:07:19Z")
visual studio and many others crash my computer because they have something called a code compiler that compiles empty code over and over again taking up all of my CPU RAM and GPU, and my mom thought i was crypto mining
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### Author:  [@system](https://discussions.unity.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/12 "2024-02-03T00:08:20Z")
and also visual s tudio’s intelesense is trash
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### Author:  [@Ryiah](https://discussions.unity.com/u/Ryiah)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/13 "2024-02-03T00:24:29Z")
> [@](#):
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> taking up all of my CPU RAM and GPU
Visual Studio receives a ton of flak but the truth is the system requirements are pretty light. A modern budget CPU with 16GB RAM should have no trouble. GPU is only necessary for rendering the UIs so if you’re struggling with VS you’re struggling with everything (ie it’s not the fault of VS).
> **[Visual Studio 2022 System Requirements](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/system-requirements)**
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> Find the minimum system requirements, supported hardware, and languages for the Visual Studio 2022 product family.
> [@](#):
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> and also visual s tudio’s intelesense is trash
It’s acceptable for most projects. It’s not the best implementation but it’s not the worst either. JetBrains Rider is about the best but that’s up to $149/year and if you’re on a computer that is struggling to run VS you have more important priorities than paying for an IDE.
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### Author:  [@lordofduct](https://discussions.unity.com/u/lordofduct)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2024, 12:57am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/14 "2024-02-03T00:57:13Z")
> [@](#):
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> they have something called a code compiler
> [@](#):
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> also visual s tudio’s intelesense is trash
If you don’t know what a code compiler is, I don’t think you have much to say about the quality of intellisense.
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### Author:  [@halley](https://discussions.unity.com/u/halley)
#### Post date: [February 3, 2024, 1:24am UTC](https://discussions.unity.com/t/are-there-any-alternative-for-visual-studio/754523/15 "2024-02-03T01:24:38Z")
Even way back in 2020 before this thread was necro-posted, I was using ScriptInspector3. Never need to leave Unity. @Flipbookee is still chugging away adding new features and making plans for SI4.