RubyMine vs Visual Studio

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RubyMine vs Visual Studio: What are the differences?

What is RubyMine? The Most Intelligent Ruby and Rails IDE. JetBrains RubyMine IDE provides a comprehensive Ruby code editor aware of dynamic language specifics and delivers smart coding assistance, intelligent code refactoring and code analysis capabilities.

What is Visual Studio? State-of-the-art tools and services that you can use to create great apps for devices, the cloud, and everything in between. Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.

RubyMine and Visual Studio belong to "Integrated Development Environment" category of the tech stack.

"Productive" is the top reason why over 61 developers like RubyMine, while over 270 developers mention "Intellisense, ui" as the leading cause for choosing Visual Studio.

According to the StackShare community, Visual Studio has a broader approval, being mentioned in 676 company stacks & 1009 developers stacks; compared to RubyMine, which is listed in 92 company stacks and 46 developer stacks.

Advice on RubyMine and Visual Studio

The problem I have is whether to choose Android Studio or Visual Studio? I have to develop a simple app for a school project that can work on both iPhone and Android.

The most important factors for me are Android and iOS compatibility. Although note that i would like to become a Software Engineer when i finish my course. (I'd like to work for Apple, just saying!)

After that id like easy integration for Google Ads and such if i do develop another app that people actually use to support development. (I'd also like to stick with one easy programming language that's compatible with a wide variety of platforms since i'm a beginner and have only ever used Pascal)

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First of all - Android Studio and Visual Studio are IDE's. Tools to create code. What you are asking is programming framework. I assume that when you are talking about Android Studio you mean Native Android Development and by Visual Studio you mean Xamarin.

If you want to create crossplatform app then Native Android Development is NOT a way to go. Xamarin might work for you, BUT - you'd rather recommend you to go with Flutter. It's much more performant than Xamarin, programming model is friendlier for developer and technology seems just more refined. It's also officially supported by google, so no worries about support.

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Pros of RubyMine
Pros of Visual Studio
  • 63
    Productive
  • 50
    Ruby on rails
  • 39
    Ruby
  • 35
    Great UI
  • 28
    Version control
  • 22
    Rubby Debugger
  • 17
    Detecting Code Styles
  • 14
    Unit Testing
  • 12
    EditorConfig
  • 9
    Database Tools
  • 5
    RVM as a Remote SDK
  • 5
    Debugger Console
  • 4
    CSS3 Enhancements
  • 4
    Mercurial / Git
  • 4
    Free for Education and Training
  • 3
    Slim Formatter
  • 2
    Inline Variables View
  • 2
    Great UX
  • 2
    Smart Backspace Indent
  • 2
    Easy to use
  • 2
    Free for Open-Source Projects
  • 2
    Free
  • 2
    Go-to-definition actually works
  • 2
    Postfix Code Completion
  • 2
    Better Code Annotations
  • 1
    The run configurations for anything
  • 1
    Unit Testing Help
  • 1
    Chef Integration
  • 1
    Puppet Support
  • 1
    Emmet Preview
  • 1
    PhoneGap/Cordova/Ionic
  • 1
    Scratch Files
  • 1
    Log Viewer
  • 1
    50% Discount for Startups
  • 1
    Free for Students
  • 1
    Free for Teachers
  • 1
    Great Community
  • 305
    Intellisense, ui
  • 244
    Complete ide and debugger
  • 165
    Plug-ins
  • 104
    Integrated
  • 93
    Documentation
  • 37
    Fast
  • 35
    Node tools for visual studio (ntvs)
  • 33
    Free Community edition
  • 24
    Simple
  • 17
    Bug free
  • 8
    Made by Microsoft
  • 6
    Full free community version
  • 5
    JetBrains plugins (ReSharper etc.) work sufficiently OK
  • 3
    Productivity Power Tools
  • 2
    Vim mode
  • 2
    VIM integration
  • 1
    I develop UWP apps and Intellisense is super useful
  • 1
    Cross platform development
  • 1
    The Power and Easiness to Do anything in any.. language
  • 1
    Available for Mac and Windows

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Cons of RubyMine
Cons of Visual Studio
  • 2
    Slow
  • 15
    Bulky
  • 14
    Made by Microsoft
  • 5
    Sometimes you need to restart to finish an update
  • 3
    Too much size for disk
  • 3
    Only avalible on Windows

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What is RubyMine?

JetBrains RubyMine IDE provides a comprehensive Ruby code editor aware of dynamic language specifics and delivers smart coding assistance, intelligent code refactoring and code analysis capabilities.

What is Visual Studio?

Visual Studio is a suite of component-based software development tools and other technologies for building powerful, high-performance applications.

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