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I've never used either of these applications. But I use Jetbrains's IntelliJ IDEA (Community Edition), and Google's Android Studio, which is based on the former, and they work very well.

That's really nice. I tested rider a while ago and thought I give it another try. But I'm so used to VS now I'm wondering if there are any benefits for switching?

First of all I became used to the font colors and style of VS that I found it really hard to "see" the code in rider. I know that you can change the theme, colors, fonts etc to match VS easily, which was the first thing I did today again, though I like the default font, but I can't read it as good.
So my question to anyone who used both extensively: Could you highlight me some huge differences between those two? I heard about some benefits when using it in Unity, but I don't know what those were.