Feature: Jetbrains Rider plugin

[vboiarkin]

It would be great to have support for Rider the same way we now have in the Visual Studio Plugin.

That would benefit for non-Windows .NET developers.

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[svick]

Thanks for the suggestion. As mentioned on Slack, this is something we would like to do eventually, but it's currently not on our roadmap.

[TimeWanderer]

This would make it an instant buy for our team. The only reason we do not use Metalama right now is that it lacks Rider plugin.

[svick]

@TimeWanderer Which feature(s) are you missing without the plugin?

[TimeWanderer]

Diff viewer and debugging generated code would be the biggest features. I should note that I didn't have a chance to try it out comprehensively, so I am not sure if you can set them up without the plugin somehow.

[gfraiteur]

Thank you for your feedback.

Note that debugging generated code is not IDE specific. You can create a LamaDebug solution configuration in Rider and it will work.

[TimeWanderer]

Thanks for the info. I assume there is no way to see the diff view or the result view after code generation is applied. Is that correct?

[svick]

@TimeWanderer There is no diff view in Rider. Technically, there is a way to see the generated code, but I'm not sure how useful it's going to be practice.

You can do it by setting <MetalamaEmitCompilerTransformedFiles> and <MetalamaFormatOutput> to true in your csproj and the generated files are then going to be a directory like obj/Debug/net8.0/metalama after you build your project.

[niklasstich]

I've switched back to Rider after Visual Studio finally drove me to the brink of insanity and I mostly debug my aspects now by using compile time tests and looking at the outputs they generate. It's not the absolute smoothest experience but it is definitely a hell of a lot better than Visual Studio, for me personally at least. Still second the request for a Rider plugin though!

[gfraiteur]

@niklasstich It's also the diff feature you're missing?

[niklasstich]

Yes, the diff feature is the main thing that's missing for me personally. What I tend to do is have Visual Studio open in the background just for looking at the diffs but actively working inside Rider, or just use the compile-time tests although those are quite verbose.
Seeing what parts of my code are compile-time or run-time would be neat too, as it's not always entirely trivially obvious, but I can bear without that for now.