VS Express or Monodevelop

Unity Engine
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I have been searching online for a while and most topics I have been able to find are rather old.

Seeing how we have Unity 5 now, and things have changed a good deal since 4, I would like to know thoughts on how viable monoDevelop is compared to VS Express for c# development.

I am interested in knowing what might make one better than the other. This means reliability and productivity.
Generally speaking, VS, mono, and other ide’s dont tend to give me issues with crashing. I have a 6 core i7 and 32gb of ram which helps keep these programs from crashing more often than not.

At a glance, I like how mono looks. Autocomplete/prediction seems quick and accurate. but I have not used it enough to know its faults.
I would love peoples opinions on the two.

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use Visual Studio community with the Unity Tools for VS
if your on windows its much better than mono dev.

i just find visual studio to do better intellisense than mono and has less problems with its auto formatting. As well as visual studio is more custmizable since it has extensions and you can add things like resharper to it.

if on OS X your stuck with mono dev

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Use VS, “Community” is free and basically equal to VS 2013, works great. Monodevelop is a turd sandwich in comparison.

As already mentioned, you’re screwed on OSX.

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Does this work with the express edition of visual studio? I understand most extensions only work with professional.

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The community edition which i linked more or less is a free version of Pro, and it supports extensions. Im currently using it with ReSharper, vsvim and the unity extensions.

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Saw the thread, and was going to stop in and say “VS Community”, but I see others have beat me to it.

And yeah, it’s more or less a free version of the pro license for use by individuals (if you go and join a large team with a company, the license no longer allows you to use Community).

If I was still a one man show, I’d be using VS Community.

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ya at home i use community edition for personal stuff, and it works exactly like the Pro version my work as for me at the office.

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I was not aware of the community version. Only ever knew about dreamspark/bizmark and the likes.
Thank you guys for telling me about it!