I&#x27;m unreasonably excited by this news. ReSharper is already an amazing tool and I&#x27;m sure JetBrains can do so much more with complete control over the whole IDE than with a plugin.<p>I&#x27;ve not been very impressed with Visual Studio 2015 so far. I particularly don&#x27;t like being forced to sign in to what should be an offline piece of software. Also, be careful installing it on an existing system as it will mess up your settings. I&#x27;m sticking with VS 12&#x2F;13 and ReSharper for now but if Rider looks good then I could be tempted to switch.<p>Android Studio is great and switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ was a good move by Google. Being able to do cross-platform development with .NET on a first class IDE is an alluring proposition. I doubt VS will ever be ported to Mac or Linux despite CoreCLR as it relies heavily on WPF which is tied to the Windows graphics system.<p>I assume Project Rider is just a code name. I wonder what the final product will be called. IntelliSharp?