vscode-csharp

> Embracing, extending, and extinguishing their own tool? Consider how C# support in VSCode got nerfed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31760684 https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/5276 There was another event only a few months ago, but I can't find the reference.

C# extension works well and uses Roslyn Language Server that is part[0] of the Roslyn (C# compiler) itself - this is what the base C# extension[1] uses. Both of these are licensed under MIT. The closed-source part is 'vsdbg' which is Visual Studio's debugger shipped as a component that the extension uses. It, however, can be replaced with Samsung's 'NetCoreDbg' by using the extension fork[2]. [0]: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/tree/main/src/LanguageServe... [1]: https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp [2]: https://github.com/muhammadsammy/free-vscode-csharp (please consider giving it a star, it's the only actively maintained alternative and other tools end up relying on it downstream to support debugging - VSCodium as well as Emacs and Neovim with VSC extension bridges)

It's not. Base C# extension for VS Code is free and MIT[0], the closed component, that is a debugger, is free as well. There is an open-source alternative too, and what effectively all debugger implementations do is integrate with debugger API provided by .NET itself, which any new tool can hook into. At the same time, Rider uses its own homegrown debugger, that works even better and has nice time-travel capability. [0]: https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp (this is _not_ DevKit, which is optional, the actual language support like Roslyn language server is part of the base extension, and you really don't need DevKit which has "extra VS-style accommodations" most of which can be done with different extensions, if that's what you want)

Jetbrains IDEs aren't free (and cost many times more than what is fair for the quality of the product they are known to ship), and SharpLab only has a partial implementation of it: https://github.com/ashmind/SharpLab/issues/616 > The Roslyn sdk is part of .NET (cross platform) these days so anyone can use it to build a visualiser should they wish to. Of course, but for most people that need this, they may just be trying to figure out how to do something as simple as adding an analyzer rule to a project, and don't have the luxury to be able to delay that work to spend weeks cobbling together a visualizer using an SDK that they may only have barely any knowledge with. There are certain things that don't inspire the kind of passion it takes for volunteers to do this, and therefore it's up to those who have a financial motive to do so. Whethe

What are you talking about? This is well documented. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/30065 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/48810 https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/1609 https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/299 https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-dotnettools/issues/573 https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/issues/5276#issuecom... https://isdotnetopen.com/ A Rider license costs $419 per year per seat and Jetbrains has a poor quality record by today's standards, and if you are a serious developer that has to use one of their products, you'll find yourself at the mercy of numerous YouTrack tickets that have been open for years. They have a habit of shipping integrations that are only partially working, and then calling it a day (or the better part of a decade). By the way, Rider may have been chea

Commercial license is not required for the plain C# extension, which is distributed under a custom license for extension install[0] and under MIT for source code[1]. The features of DevKit (which is uninstalled on my system) are as follows[2]: - VS-style solution explorer - VS-style test explorer - Intellicode (extra extension that integrates with DevKit) I don't have use for any of these, preferring folder style navigation and CMD+T/P/etc., and GitHub Copilot autocomplete does way better job for any text than Intellicode. The "intellisense" VS calls it is just a base autocomplete feature in VSC that works for any language provided it has a back-end that integrates through LSP. [0] https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/blob/main/RuntimeLic... [1] https://github.com/dotnet/vscode-csharp/blob/main/LICENSE.tx... [2] https://marketplace.vis