Now that .NET is easy to run on non-Windows platforms, Microsoft is likely trying to figure out what's the business case. By keeping the tools to them, Microso

Now that .NET is easy to run on non-Windows platforms, Microsoft is likely trying to figure out what's the business case. By keeping the tools to them, Microsoft can try to offer the best developer experience. Hopefully (from Microsoft point of view) this pushes developers to use services from their ecosystem (Github, Azure). It's likely that in the future more developers are actually doing the development remotely. Not checking out the code to local machine, but instead using IDE which communicates with the server component. Microsoft has Github Code Spaces [1], JetBrains has Fleet[2] [1] https://github.com/features/codespaces https://github.com/features/codespaces [2] https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/ https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/