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Which is honestly what they need to do, to make .net core truly next level. It was such a drag to so C# on non windows machines, and it’s becoming less and less
by jaabe 7y ago
Which is honestly what they need to do, to make .net core truly next level. It was such a drag to so C# on non windows machines, and it’s becoming less and less so.
Visual Studio still has some perks, but with the dotnet cli it’s actually decent enough to use .net core on a Mac.
What I don’t get is why they aren’t focusing even more on VS Code, I mean, why bother making Visual Studio for mac when you have an all-platform alternative?
The only bad thing about VSCode is that it has made me really, really hate the dark-theme in visual studio because the code one is so much better.
- jjuel 7y agoYeah never said it was a bad thing. I love VSCode and I like Visual Studio. I wish VSCode could replace Visual Studio for my current work, but I don't think it works well with .NET Framework solutions yet (and may never will).
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoI find it's not as turn key as Visual Studio. It has a lot of the same, or even better and different functionality, but if I'm opening and new solution, 99/100 times if I want to run it immediately without tinkering it'll be in Visual Studio. I love code for the extensions, but Visual Studio still feels easier to get something up and running in.
- jaabe 7y agoI find the opposite to be true. We’ve been a C# shop for decades, but with python and JavaScript creeping in, we’re just so used to clis. Visual Studio does a lot of things, but the truth is that we never use them. Well except for Linq-To-Sql which is ironically removed from the standard setup because Microsoft considers it bad practice. Five years ago we downgraded from Enterprise to Professional, exactly because what we do 95% of the time is to build from an empty project without using any of the bling. To be fair, some of the bling like GitHub and docker integration have gotten fairly good, but because they were so bad for so long we simply got used to using them outside of Visual Studio. I suspect that in 5 years we’ll be going from Professional to Visual Studio Code. I hope so, but things like intellisense just isn’t there yet.
- azhenley 7y agoI agree. I always kept a Windows VM on my Mac so I could use Visual Studio. About 6 months ago I uninstalled it and just use VS Code now (though my C# usage has also decreased). I've heard great things about JetBrains Rider but haven't tried it.