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ReSharper
Raised as a usability problem by 24 people on Hacker News over 13 years (2011–2023), in 23 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Slows Visual Studio with lag and heavy memory useUnreviewed
20112026- R# gets sluggish on big projects in Visual Studio2023-09-03
- Makes Visual Studio so slow it spikes CPU and makes the solution unusable2022-01-01
- Formatting a 20k LOC solution takes about 5 minutes in the IDE2020-06-19
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 26 complaints
- R# gets sluggish on big projects in Visual Studio2023-09-03
- Described as incredibly buggy, causing the reader to avoid it2022-08-17
- Locks up the editor for dozens of seconds when finding usages2022-06-19
- ReSharper makes Visual Studio slow, especially on large projects2022-05-26
- Makes Visual Studio so slow it spikes CPU and makes the solution unusable2022-01-01
- Formatting a 20k LOC solution takes about 5 minutes in the IDE2020-06-19
- Slows the IDE so much that it becomes unusable, eating gigs of RAM2020-02-11
- Installed ReSharper slows the computer until features are manually disabled2019-09-24
- Makes Visual Studio so slow and laggy the user had to turn it off2019-03-09
- Performance so slow the user had to turn it off2019-03-02
- Slows cold start about fivefold and adds input lag on each keystroke2018-11-03
- Slow and laggy on large projects, so the user has to turn it off2017-03-08
- Can't find a setting to turn off ctrl+click navigating to definitions2016-11-25
- Slow, overly opinionated, flags existing code and redlines while typing2016-11-17
- Gets increasingly slower with every release2016-10-02
- Makes Visual Studio slow, laggy, and memory-hungry for developers2016-01-20
- Long waits on 'ReSharper is thinking...' popup after editing a resource file2016-01-14
- Makes IntelliSense unresponsive and crashes the IDE on large projects2016-01-13
- Makes Visual Studio much slower; interactions lag badly2016-01-13
- Noticeable performance impact slows the IDE, especially when opening projects2016-01-13
- Makes Visual Studio slow and its user experience is abysmal2016-01-13
- Hundreds of options make it hard to tune performance without losing features2015-10-27
- ReSharper sometimes really slows things down in Visual Studio2015-04-23
- Visual Studio slows down too much after opening large projects2015-04-10
- Makes Visual Studio take much longer to load and lag when opening large classes2014-10-11
- Visual Studio crashes every 30 minutes or so with ReSharper installed2011-06-03