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Apropos of Microsoft discontinuing Visual Studio for the Mac. My perspective is as someone who mainly used C# on the Mac with Unity. I was a professional C# de
by dietrichepp 3y ago
Apropos of Microsoft discontinuing Visual Studio for the Mac.
My perspective is as someone who mainly used C# on the Mac with Unity. I was a professional C# developer at one point, but not on the Mac.
MonoDevelop, long ago, shipped with Unity on the Mac, and you'd use it for all your C# development. Xamarin Studio was the proprietary counterpart, and the selling point was that you could develop cross-platform mobile apps in C#. When Microsoft purchased Xamarin, Xamarin Studio was rebranded as Visual Studio, which is confusing.
So we are back to MonoDevelop if you want a free IDE for C# you can use on the Mac, with good C# support. VS Code has C# support through a plugin but it's not as good as MonoDevelop.
- anta40 3y agohttps://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/what-happened-to-vs-for-mac https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/what-happ... "While the decision has been made to retire Visual Studio for Mac, we remain committed to our developers on Mac and .NET MAUI with alternatives like the C# Dev Kit for Visual Studio Code" Ah I see....