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How do you write C# for mac?

becquerel 3y ago
You can write C# in VS Code. It's not the best-ever experience, but it's workable. If you just mean getting it running, .NET is cross-plat.
- CharlieDigital 3y ago
  > It's not the best-ever experience, but it's workable It's pretty damn good, IMO. Been using it personally building some rather large projects. The only time I miss Rider is when doing refactoring (Rider still much better for that) and code suggestions. Otherwise, VS Code is a great editor for C# IME.
TobbenTM 3y ago
Rider is pretty good as an IDE, and .Net works on both M1/2 ARM as well as X64 macOS.
TheBinaryGuy 3y ago
Via .NET, which has been cross platform since 2016 or so (before that Mono was the preferred framework). For the UI bit, I'd recommend Avalonia UI (which is what Ryujinx uses as well). It's cross platform, has been out forever (2013 - from their FAQ page) and even runs on embedded devices. Rider (by JetBrains) has excellent Avalonia support via a plugin and is much better for other .NET stuff over Visual Studio for Mac.
- jasomill 3y ago
  Relevant aside: while the Ryujinx Avalonia UI has more features and is generally nicer, due to a small number of outstanding issues, Ryujinx uses an older GTK+ UI in its default builds. Avalonia builds are, however, readily available with each release, and auto-update just like standard GTK+ builds. See the project FAQ[1] for full details. [1] https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/wiki/FAQ-and-Troubleshooting#-what-is-avalonia https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/wiki/FAQ-and-Troubleshoot...
Goz3rr 3y ago
The same way you write it for Windows and Linux, .NET has been cross platform for almost a decade
neonsunset 3y ago
Official SDK for macOS (make sure to pick the right one, arm64 or x64): https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/7.0 https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/7.0 Then, an IDE of your preference: - VS Code: install C# extension and Roslynator (it adds useful analyzers) - Rider: provides everything out of box, is more user-friendly (especially for people who used to big and fully-fledged solution) and has much superior debugging capabilities but is paid and has higher memory and battery consumption
- jhatemyjob 3y ago
  Thanks, is there any way to do this without an IDE? I use vim And before someone says "that's impossible, even vanilla macOS development forces you to use Xcode", nope that's not true. You can compile macOS apps with clang just fine.
  - TheBinaryGuy 3y ago
    You can probably use omnisharp-vim (OmniSharp is the same tech that powers VS Code's C# experience). https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vim https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vim
lloydatkinson 3y ago
The same way you write it for anything else. Why would it be different?

You can write C# in VS Code. It's not the best-ever experience, but it's workable. If you just mean getting it running, .NET is cross-plat.

CharlieDigital 3y ago
> It's not the best-ever experience, but it's workable It's pretty damn good, IMO. Been using it personally building some rather large projects. The only time I miss Rider is when doing refactoring (Rider still much better for that) and code suggestions. Otherwise, VS Code is a great editor for C# IME.

TobbenTM 3y ago

Rider is pretty good as an IDE, and .Net works on both M1/2 ARM as well as X64 macOS.

TheBinaryGuy 3y ago

Via .NET, which has been cross platform since 2016 or so (before that Mono was the preferred framework). For the UI bit, I'd recommend Avalonia UI (which is what Ryujinx uses as well). It's cross platform, has been out forever (2013 - from their FAQ page) and even runs on embedded devices. Rider (by JetBrains) has excellent Avalonia support via a plugin and is much better for other .NET stuff over Visual Studio for Mac.

jasomill 3y ago
Relevant aside: while the Ryujinx Avalonia UI has more features and is generally nicer, due to a small number of outstanding issues, Ryujinx uses an older GTK+ UI in its default builds. Avalonia builds are, however, readily available with each release, and auto-update just like standard GTK+ builds. See the project FAQ[1] for full details. [1] https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/wiki/FAQ-and-Troubleshooting#-what-is-avalonia https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx/wiki/FAQ-and-Troubleshoot...

Goz3rr 3y ago

The same way you write it for Windows and Linux, .NET has been cross platform for almost a decade

neonsunset 3y ago

Official SDK for macOS (make sure to pick the right one, arm64 or x64): https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/7.0 https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/7.0 Then, an IDE of your preference: - VS Code: install C# extension and Roslynator (it adds useful analyzers) - Rider: provides everything out of box, is more user-friendly (especially for people who used to big and fully-fledged solution) and has much superior debugging capabilities but is paid and has higher memory and battery consumption

jhatemyjob 3y ago
Thanks, is there any way to do this without an IDE? I use vim And before someone says "that's impossible, even vanilla macOS development forces you to use Xcode", nope that's not true. You can compile macOS apps with clang just fine.
- TheBinaryGuy 3y ago
  You can probably use omnisharp-vim (OmniSharp is the same tech that powers VS Code's C# experience). https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vim https://github.com/OmniSharp/omnisharp-vim

lloydatkinson 3y ago

The same way you write it for anything else. Why would it be different?