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I heard MS was discontinuing mac support, does this release change anything?

by pcdoodle 3y ago

wyozi 3y ago
This is about VSCode. MS is discontinuing Mac support for Visual Studio.
- moonchrome 3y ago
  It's not even support for visual studio - it's a completely different product spun out of monodevelop they acquired with xamarin. Anything xamarin related (MAUI, VS for Mac) is extreme level of garbage - such low standard of quality is really doing .NET/Visual Studio brands a disservice.
  - qwytw 3y ago
    Seems that they've pretty much just bought Xamarin to kill it (besides actually properly porting .NET itself to other platforms which they could've done anyway). It seemed like a pretty cool product showing some promise 7-8 years ago.
apfsx 3y ago
Pretty sure that's only for Visual Studio not VS Code.
qwytw 3y ago
They are discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac aka Xamarin Studio aka Monodevelop. Visual Studio Code is a completely different product (to be fair so is Visual Studio itself for that matter..)
- Evidlo 3y ago
  Why did Microsoft overload the "Visual" keyword so much. It's almost a joke at this point. Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic Classic, VBScript. Am I forgetting anything?
  - SoftTalker 3y ago
    Visual Source Safe, but that's best forgotten.
  - dagw 3y ago
    Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual FoxPro, Visual SourceSafe,
  - Pxtl 3y ago
    Microsoft has always been terrible at naming things. Their word processor is called Word. Their sql server is called Sql Server. Their IM is called MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger/Messenger/Skype/Lync/Skype For Business/Teams
    - qwytw 3y ago
      I'm not sure about Word, I think it's not such a bad name and it's pretty much a synonym for 'text editor' at this point, not sure you can do much better than that. Certainly not a worse name than 'Writer' (sounds a bit clunky), maybe on par with Pages.
  - wvenable 3y ago
    Don't all companies do that. Even Apple isn't immune with the ridiculously named AirPods Max.
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wlesieutre 3y ago
Different software, Visual Studio Code is continuing, Visual Studio for Mac is being discontinued.

I heard MS was discontinuing mac support, does this release change anything?

wyozi 3y ago

This is about VSCode. MS is discontinuing Mac support for Visual Studio.

moonchrome 3y ago
It's not even support for visual studio - it's a completely different product spun out of monodevelop they acquired with xamarin. Anything xamarin related (MAUI, VS for Mac) is extreme level of garbage - such low standard of quality is really doing .NET/Visual Studio brands a disservice.
- qwytw 3y ago
  Seems that they've pretty much just bought Xamarin to kill it (besides actually properly porting .NET itself to other platforms which they could've done anyway). It seemed like a pretty cool product showing some promise 7-8 years ago.

apfsx 3y ago

Pretty sure that's only for Visual Studio not VS Code.

qwytw 3y ago

They are discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac aka Xamarin Studio aka Monodevelop. Visual Studio Code is a completely different product (to be fair so is Visual Studio itself for that matter..)

Evidlo 3y ago
Why did Microsoft overload the "Visual" keyword so much. It's almost a joke at this point. Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic Classic, VBScript. Am I forgetting anything?
- SoftTalker 3y ago
  Visual Source Safe, but that's best forgotten.
- dagw 3y ago
  Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual FoxPro, Visual SourceSafe,
- Pxtl 3y ago
  Microsoft has always been terrible at naming things. Their word processor is called Word. Their sql server is called Sql Server. Their IM is called MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger/Messenger/Skype/Lync/Skype For Business/Teams
  - qwytw 3y ago
    I'm not sure about Word, I think it's not such a bad name and it's pretty much a synonym for 'text editor' at this point, not sure you can do much better than that. Certainly not a worse name than 'Writer' (sounds a bit clunky), maybe on par with Pages.
- wvenable 3y ago
  Don't all companies do that. Even Apple isn't immune with the ridiculously named AirPods Max.

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wlesieutre 3y ago

Different software, Visual Studio Code is continuing, Visual Studio for Mac is being discontinued.