So I finally got around to upgrading Unity from 5.6.6f1 and I figured I might as while upgrade from Visual Studio 2010 as well. My previous resharper license is toasty.
So with Rider and Resharper being around the same price, which is better working in Unity?
After a quick trial run, Rider looks pretty good, but what do you guys think?
Correct me if Iām wrong, but I believe Rider comes with Resharper already installed.
Sorry - I meant Visual Studio with resharper.
I thought resharper was always the VS plugin, although that might have changed, I havenāt been following all that closely.
I think itās better to stay with VS, better support for azure and tooling and probably also future tooling. Iām on vs 2019 and latest ReSharper, works well
If you use MS services, then probably VC with ReSharper is a better choice because there are things in VS to support them. If you donāt and you donāt plan to do that, then it matter of taste. I only played with Rider once, itās really cool.
If you use it only for Unity work without extra MS services, does not matter which you choose in my opinion.
Rider / Jetbrains is good keeping up with whatever tooling you need. Iāll put my vote for Rider, Granted they both do unity equally well, I would say it would come down to what one you prefer. Since i use intellij at work, jetbrains has IDEās for everything out there. So if you decide to develop for macs or IOS you can get AppCode and be instantly familar with the IDE knowing all hotkeys and shortcuts.
Tooling like service fabric etc work better in VS. In my opinion, but if you do not use it and do not plan on using features like that you can choose any of the two.
Iām really looking at specific features - Rider has integration w/ the unity console so you can walk back the stack for example (even out of debug mode) - does VS have something similar?
Rider also maintains a connection to the Unity process while not in debug, which means you can comfortably keep working without having to reconnect over and over.
Old VS integration had nothing like that - does new VS integration have similarly well thought out features?
You mean the feature that you can double click the stacktrace and open VS on that line?
I mean double click a specific line in the stack trace not the top line.
I used to have to use a unity plugin to make it so i could jump to a specific line in the stack, rider has full integration out of the box.
Thatās pretty good - thatās stock everything - just Unity 2019?
Hereās Rider displaying the unity console
Note that it also has the package view available in handy form - does vs2019 also have this?
Yepp, stock
I think the āremain always connectedā feature will win me over unless 2019 has the same?
Also, is there a way to prevent VS from going into readonly mode while debugger is attached to unity?
What are you referring to when you say āremain always connectedā? Are you referring to the reload that Unity goes through when you alt-tab between windows?
I mean a combination of not locking the editor when youre debugging and the console feed always being synchronized in ide.
Pretty sure the editor locks when breaking on a breakpoint or just pausing
From experience, VS2019 + Intellisense Extender + Roslynator is pretty comparable to VS2019 + Resharper. Havenāt used Rider, but if youāre interested in 80% of the value for 0% of the cost, thatās probably where Iād start.
Yes Unity 2019.x has that now inbuilt.
But you could do that before 2019, with Console Enhanced
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/utilities/console-enhanced-free-42381
Yeah console enhanced got me through some rough times.
Being able to have a debugger connected and editing code (even if the code isnāt updated on the fly like normal .net apps in visual studio) is a huge gain though. And being able to view the actual unity project contents from the IDE, including assets and prefabs (and being able to switch back to normal solution view) is another big and obvious win.
Iām pretty sold on Rider, they even have some semi functional code complete for shaders!
