As the title says, you probably guessed it already. For work I mainly develop on the .NET platform using a Windows device, but at home I enjoy all the benefits of a good OS.
Now I kinda want to get my C# skills “sharper” and have some projects in mind utilising it, but I’m a bit miffed about the development tools and possibilities of deployment available for me on Linux.
Also I may want to coerce my boss to let me work on a device with my OS of choice.
Any advice from devs that are in a similar spot? What do you use for .NET development on Linux? And are there any cool multiplatform deployment possibilities (next to Xamarin/Maui) that actually let me build natively on Linux?
Been a long while since I’ve done any C#, but for other languages (Java, Python, Kotlin) I’ve very much enjoyed the JetBrains IDEs. They have a dedicated C# one as well, though I’ve not used it.
JetBrains Rider: I use it, and I love it; I used it during my day job on Windows until they got restrictive on only using company-authorised software (😭), but I still use it on Linux and macOS for any C# work I do outside my day job. All the benefits of their Visual Studio add-in, Resharper, are built-in to Rider.
And it’s faster because they don’t have to work within the restrictions placed on VS plugins.