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When comparing LINQPad vs Fody.Costura, the Slant community recommends LINQPad for most people. In the question“What are the best .net tools?” LINQPad is ranked 17th while Fody.Costura is ranked 20th.
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Pros
Pro The ideal coding scratch pad
Pro Dark theme
Pro Portable
Can be deployed portable all files are optional apart from LINQPad.exe and LINQPad.exe.config.
Pro Compression
Compresses multiple dll's into one.
Pro Better than ILMerge
Cons
Con PostgreSQL driver
PostgreSQL support is not included, but a driver can downloaded from GitHub.
Con Windows only
But LINQ Pad 6 will support .Net Core 3.0.
Con Newest version is complicated
Earlier versions were simple to use, but with the focus on .NET Core things have become complicated.
Con Not a magic bullet
Complicated projects can be problematic.