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Wow, VS for Mac is being killed...https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-for-mac-retirement-announcement/ that's umm...and interesting strategy for the 'cross platform' .net core. It was always a bit half-hearted and half assed let's be honest; like every Microsoft client approach.
"There are several alternative solutions to using Visual Studio for Mac:
Visual Studio Code with the new C# Dev Kit and related extensions"
Ah yes the C# Dev Kit that paywalled POS that almost everyone agrees is FAR worse than what it replaced. GREAT PLAN
@scottgal They must be making a killing on VS because it’s counter to their ecosystem health not to go all in on VS Code.
@ed_blackburn More 'they built this Dev Box bullshit so you damn well better pay us to use it'. Honestly wouldn't surprise me if they just stopped providing VS altogether and force us all to use this cloud hosted nonsense for a subscription fee.
@scottgal Do you mean Codespaces? I thought Codespaces was intrinsically tied to VS Code. Thus, if MS pushes devs towards Codespaces, they need a robust dotnet narrative—a platform they traditionally undermined in favour of Visual Studio.
Currently, they risk being out-executed by JetBrains with Rider or Fleet. Fleet with Cloud is coming, a direct Codespaces challenger.
@scottgal Cross-platform C#/.NET can't do better than Rider. Visual Studio Code for .NET development using OmniSharp didn't feel as good as the support other languages got. I've not seen the C# Dev Kit Extension, but it says “Licensed under Visual Studio subscription” here https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/dotnet wow, that's not great. Sure, Rider isn't free but it's pretty great.
@scottgal
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Visual-Studio-for-Mac-so-bad-and-will-it-get-better
My hope, now that they've gone all in with Codespaces, is the c# Dev experience in vscode will greatly improve in the near future. Fingers crossed :)
