Best IDE for UE

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I’ve been reading which one I should choose, but it’s not clear to me.
Businesses want Visual Studio.
The “alleged developers on the web pages” want Rider (almost unknown)

Point number 1.
Currently, Rider (Jetbrains) consumes more than visual studio. I have verified it. (This reminds me of the battle against Java eclipse vs Intellij, be careful, the pages say that Intellij is faster…)

Point number 2.
Visual Studio 2022 runs much faster, loads faster, and consumes less RAM. (I’ll have to see where the sources that claim otherwise come from)

My question is. What do developers prefer?
I know what companies want, they want “Visual Studio”, since they don’t prefer to pay more if you can do it for free with another IDE.

What I can say first hand is:
I’ve found “VERY DUMB” issues of folders, tabs, projects, code includes, builds…(basic stuff) with lots of bugs in IntellIJ. Basic problems that you don’t have in a normal IDE
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Always the ones from JetBrains making noise:

Jetbrains: They have the marketing motto of “If nobody knows us, we will pretend that we are known.”
Jetbrains-Boss: “Create threads and websites saying that Rider is better and better known”
Jetbrains-Employee: “But no one knows it, there are no videos about it and above all it is new with many errors for…”
Jetbrains-Boss: “Do it”
User: Googling “Best IDE to UE5”
WebPages: “Rider The best IDE for UE5”
WebPages: “IntellIJ gives you a house in Cancun”…

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Well, it seems that Epic Games and JetBrains have somehow agreed to use Rider. That’s why UE Engine reads the Rider IDE.
jetbrains .com/help/rider/Unreal_Engine__UnrealLink_RiderLink.html
jetbrains .com/lp/rider-unreal
So I can already wait for the comments of what kind they will be.
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For those who think I’m lying or fans of JetBrains.

979×241 17.3 KB

VS 2022
976×246 15.7 KB

Rider:
973×270 18.5 KB

stabilized between 40 - 90% CPU (it’s dancing, welcome to JetBrains)
976×273 17.7 KB

972×270 18.8 KB

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I’ve been using Visual Studio with UE for around 8 years and VS has stood up to every task - I like the sound of Rider, but I really can’t see any point in changing…

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After a few weeks with VS and VSC, I can already confirm. My verdict: they don’t work.

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Rider is awesome!

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I’m going to have to give you the reason. I will go buy 1TB Ram for Rider. Rider consumes like a newborn child.

Rider for now is like someone who makes your bed before you go to sleep. It’s comfortable. Very expensive for my taste.

One of the things I remember is that if you had an interface and you had a virtual method with UFUNCTION (something I accidentally put in) and VS didn’t tell you the error until after compiling that you can’t do that. While Rider notifies you instantly. It’s a detail.

By the way, in VSC: Intellisense always updating · Issue #10951 · microsoft/vscode-cpptools · GitHub

From my point of view I do not recommend VSC.
Yes I recommend Rider and alternatively VS. But if you can, use Rider.

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A detailed article about why Rider (or the dotUltimate license) should be a better option than VS

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Uninstall Google Chrome. Use Firefox instead. It is better for your RAM.

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i changed my code editor from vs to rider,after then my project is not launching,saying recompile it from source manullay

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ummm…can you try disabling live coding in editor preferences?