Many Rider users may know that the IDE has two main processes: frontend (Java-application based on the IntelliJ platform) and backend (.NET-application based on ReSharper). Since the first release of Rider, we’ve used Mono as the backend runtime on Linux and macOS. A few years ago, we decided to migrate to .NET Core. After resolving hundreds of technical challenges, we are finally ready to present the .NET Core edition of Rider!
In this blog post, we want to share the results of some benchmarks that compare the Mono-powered and the .NET Core-powered editions of Rider. You may find this inte