Why did you stopped using FreeBSD ?

lgrant · Jan 31, 2026

Alain De Vos said:
Not the idea of starting a flame-war.
I program mostly in F# and Scala.
But no good editor like vscode(plugin) or idea or rider available.
Currently using artix-linux , redcore-linux , mx-linux.

I am using Geany for my Fortran coding, and I like it. It does not explicitly support F#, but it supports C#, so it apparently knows how to work with the CLR. And it has a bunch of plugins available. You might take a look at it and see if it would do the job.

Alain De Vos · Jan 31, 2026

No serious. I stopped using FreeBSD. Fine OS, just i use and need Rider / Idea. For some strange reason even openjdk , these does not work. If Rider / Idea works i come back. Now i'm on Artix-Linux.

cracauer@ · Feb 1, 2026

Alain De Vos said:
No serious. I stopped using FreeBSD. Fine OS, just i use and need Rider / Idea. For some strange reason even openjdk , these does not work. If Rider / Idea works i come back. Now i'm on Artix-Linux.

Who is Rider?

AlfredoLlaquet · Feb 1, 2026

Alain De Vos said:
No serious. I stopped using FreeBSD. Fine OS, just i use and need Rider / Idea. For some strange reason even openjdk , these does not work. If Rider / Idea works i come back. Now i'm on Artix-Linux.

I thought your goal was to maintain some ports in the future. I guess your goal has changed or I misunderstood it.

rmomota · Feb 2, 2026

cracauer@ said:
Who is Rider?

https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/ ?

rmomota · Feb 2, 2026

Alain De Vos said:
No serious. I stopped using FreeBSD. Fine OS, just i use and need Rider / Idea. For some strange reason even openjdk , these does not work. If Rider / Idea works i come back. Now i'm on Artix-Linux.

I use Idea, it does work.
Tested Rider and it does not, Rider uses it's own JVM binaries located at jbr folder which is not FreeBSD compatible

cracauer@ · Feb 2, 2026

rmomota said:
https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/ ?

Interesting that a specialized .NET IDE is available for Linux.

But yes, if it gets that special you have a wild ride on FreeBSD.

Alain De Vos · Feb 2, 2026

The problem is not language. Dotnet & Openjdk works just fine.
Problem is language servers, many have linuxism, and vsode,Rider,Idea give very bad results.
On artix(arch without systemd), fine.

Alain De Vos · Feb 2, 2026

And for the record, no swift package available on FreeBSD. Serious ?

cracauer@ · Feb 2, 2026

Alain De Vos said:
And for the record, no swift package available on FreeBSD. Serious ?

swift as in Java?

Alain De Vos · Feb 2, 2026

Good joke.
As long as there is no garbage collector hanging...

astyle · Feb 2, 2026

fmc000 said:
The irony is that the Foundation is trying to push towards laptops and I'm leaving FreeBSD because a suspend/resume regression.

I never cared for suspend/resume even when that works perfectly (i.e., on WIndoze). Oh, wait, maybe Wayland expects THAT to work properly?

Maybe that's why I just don't see suspend/resume as a good enough reason to leave FreeBSD...

Alain De Vos · Feb 2, 2026

There are imporant things and less important. When i boot it's for day. One second more means nothing.

AlfredoLlaquet · Feb 2, 2026

Alain De Vos said:
There are imporant things and less important. When i boot it's for day. One second more means nothing.

It's absolutely unclear if you think sleep/resume is vital. If you use a laptop and you want to boot only once a day, then it's vital for you.

LibreQuest · Feb 2, 2026

astyle said:
I never cared for suspend/resume even when that works perfectly (i.e., on WIndoze). Oh, wait, maybe Wayland expects THAT to work properly?

Maybe that's why I just don't see suspend/resume as a good enough reason to leave FreeBSD...

I never thought to check suspend resume. I use power off / power on.