It's complicated. There are a lot of things you'll miss coming from "real" Visual Studio. VS Code is really a very good lightweight editor, but it's not tryin

It's complicated. There are a lot of things you'll miss coming from "real" Visual Studio. VS Code is really a very good lightweight editor, but it's not trying to be an IDE. Visual Studio 2022 for Mac is.. fine. It's a poor choice of name given that it sounds like a Mac port of Visual Studio, which it's not (it's MonoDevelop rebranded and updated with other features, but is still really far from VS on Windows). I use JetBrains Rider quite a bit and I really quite like it, but even then, it's not close to matching Visual Studio + Resharper. The features that you only really get to know on large projects or specific use cases are the ones that you'll miss the most in my experience, as it tends to be the blind spot for lighter environments. IntelliTrace is a big one. There's nothing like it on any other .NET IDE that I can think of. Also the deep AppInsights integration has always been fairly incredible in VS and while VS Code has started to adopt some of this, it's still far from what's in VS. The last thing I really miss is Snapshot Debugging. Having an exception being reported to you from live, being able to then click the exception on Azure and immediately pop a VS window with the debugger on the line that failed with a fully rewindable call stack as if it were running locally is magical for turning around bugs - most of the time you don't even need to try to trace the cause or recreate the circumstances at all.