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C#2mo ago
Raxious

✅ About to start my journey, which IDE for Windows?

Hi all, so I'm planning to start my journey into C# and was wondering what IDE I should go for. Now I have both a macbook that I use at work and a Windows PC at home. For the macbook I decided to go for Rider, seeing as it's free, I have access to an educational license and VS support from Microsoft has stopped. However, I was wondering if I should go for Rider on Windows as well, or if I should go for VS instead. I have no experience with C# at all just yet, so as of now I have no preference for either.
10 Replies
ero
ero2mo ago
just go for rider on both systems then
Jimmacle
Jimmacle2mo ago
FYI you can't use an educational license for commercial use, you need a paid license for that other than that, i would use the same IDE everywhere so you only have to learn one to start
Thinker
Thinker2mo ago
Rider is amazing, no reason not to use it on all platforms if you can
Raxious
RaxiousOP2mo ago
oh that I know, but considering I haven't even written a single line of code, I don't think i'd have to worry to much about using the IDE for commercial use xD
Jimmacle
Jimmacle2mo ago
right, just saying if you put it on your work PC then your IT department might take issue with the license you're using
Raxious
RaxiousOP2mo ago
oh no not at all, i'm a teacher anyway :kekw:
Jimmacle
Jimmacle2mo ago
ah, then that's the license you should be using :LUL:
Raxious
RaxiousOP2mo ago
jup, that's why i got it haha
Jimmacle
Jimmacle2mo ago
kind of surprised they still have an educational license considering it's free for non-commercial use
Raxious
RaxiousOP2mo ago
also a teacher at the computer science department The educational license gives you free access to any of their software. Don't think there's any real difference between te non-commercial use version and this one.

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