Visual Studio vs Visual Studio Code?
Which one should I use?
I'm in Windows
I have seen that Visual Studio is more complete as IDE, but also Visual Studio Code has more extensions and it can be used as IDE with the extensions like the C# DevKit, what do you think?
Visual Studio is great for me and the memory or disk space is not an issue, but it lacks of extensions meanwhile VSCode has more extensions and it can be used not only for C# but for another languages, including Java... So I'm in a dilemma of not knowing which one should I use everyday
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VS offers a more 'complete' experience for C# than VSCode. VSCode does have Dev Kit which is absolutely usable, but VS is still much more complete.
And... you know that you can have more than one program installed on your computer at once, right? Like, you don't have to uninstall VSCode just because you use VS for C#. VSCode is a better IDE for a ton of other languages, no one is saying VS is the end-all-be-all of IDEs.
Yeah, you're right, thank you
I was also considering Rider but I don't know
Maybe I should try
Rider is imo waaay better than VS or VSCode.
Although it's not free 
Interesting, I'll try it's free trial at least hehe
also $freerider
There are two ways to get Rider for free:
Being a student: https://www.jetbrains.com/community/education/#students
Using it for an OSS project: https://www.jetbrains.com/community/opensource/#support
Thanks!!
Personally I use Rider for most C# stuff (although not rn, haven't renewed my license, so I'm using VSCode) and VSCode for most literally everything else.
I'll give them a try, thanks 💙
when its not free you have two options, we all know which ones
It's well worth actually paying for.