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Which IDE? If you mean Visual Studio, that's a Windows only product and it's really only good for Windows specific development like C# and MSVC. If you do C# or
by Kranar 6y ago
Which IDE? If you mean Visual Studio, that's a Windows only product and it's really only good for Windows specific development like C# and MSVC. If you do C# or C++ development on Windows or XBox then you're likely already using Visual Studio and the community edition is a free product for individual use or open source products.
If you mean some future IDE that MS is working on that they plan to evolve VS Code into, I don't see MS trying to sell macOS or Linux users a proprietary dev environment or toolchain. It's certainly possible but your post doesn't provide any justification for that position.
- lloeki 6y agoVisual Studio for macOS (and Linux) exists, it was previously named Xamarin, and before that MonoDevelop.
- Kranar 6y agoSure, just like Visual Studio Code exists for macOS and Linux. My specific argument was Microsoft is unlikely to release a proprietary IDE for macOS or Linux. Visual Studio for macOS is free and Microsoft open sourced Xamarin and Monodevelop [1] when they acquired it back in 2016. [1] https://github.com/mono/monodevelop https://github.com/mono/monodevelop
- cableshaft 6y agoVisual Studio for Mac is nowhere near as good as on Windows. I can't speak for how it is on Linux. I'm glad it exists, but I've found it a pain to use.
- sbelskie 6y agoObviously lots of C# development is still on Windows, but let’s not act like it’s 2003. I work on C# all day everyday and most of what I write runs on Linux.