having some small amount of experience building ides,
here are my primary concerns with dotdevelop:

• no more MSFT and all that this entails

secondarily things like focus, fragmentation, interoperability are concerns. but really it's lack of bodies and backing.

if you have a bunch of devs chasing single issues that matter to them, not saying it can't work but it's very slow and you're going to lose a lot.

vscode isn't going to replace dotdevelop anytime soon imho, as monodevelop is still superior to it in many ways.

we have started using rider much, much more simply because:

• it's better than monodevelop in most ways
• it's better than vscode in most ways
• it's cross platform
• unlike MSFT they have good support

(no affiliation with rider, have tried it many times in past and found it lacking... but it's become quite an quality tool and since we switched entirely to linux and we can't go back to vs pro, and vscode is pretty basic... rider seems the most professional option for linux).

As such I'd like to suggest that if there are devs who really want to work on IDE development, please get together in this thread and figure out some sort of sponsorship model... whether it be typical open source + commercial, github sponsors / patreon or something else.... wiith everything that is happening and all the integrations required, it's gonna be hard to maintain any momenteum if you don't have something like this to build on.

No experts here on this w/respect to IDEs and the like. Obviously a community effort would work best.
For the time being we're going to get behind rider but if there is some momenteum amongst devs here for a more dedicated effort that makes sense, we might be able to contribute either some sponsorship or some coding.

Seems like it's pretty sparse so far, but there is a lot of little things monodevelop has that rider doesn't.

inspired by [issue #79 ]