'Huge architectural change' to JetBrains ReSharper cuts Visual Studio freezes

JetBrains has updated ReSharper, its .NET plugin for Visual Studio, with an out-of-process design that achieves a 61 percent reduction in UI freezes, the company claims. However, the new mode has reduced functionality. ReSharper is a productivity tool for navigating and refactoring .NET code. It is the most popular extension …

[sstroud]

Rider is better pretty much all round.

Smart developers will have abandoned Visual Studio years ago. Even without Resharper running, it's a dog.

Rider is so much better in ever respect.

[Anonymous Coward]

Please explain !!!??? [Quality is an addon it would appear ... not available yet !!!]

"... achieves a 61 percent reduction in UI freezes"

Aren't UI freezes in any quantity greater than 0 a hindrance to doing your job as a dev ???

A bit like 'it only crashes once in a while' being not very useful for the users of a accounting software suite.

P.S.

My Ford Cortina is wonderful it only stalls 3 or 4 times a week and the oil leaks are almost gone !!!

:)

[IGotOut]

Re: Please explain !!!??? [Quality is an addon it would appear ... not available yet !!!]

"and the oil leaks are almost gone !"

Yes rather than 5 little puddles of oil it's down to just one large one.

[druck]

Duh

Historically, the core strength of ReSharper has been its refactoring features, arguably needed more than ever given the tendency of AI coding to increase near-duplicate code and generate poor code structure

Very simple solution to that - don't use AI.