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My understanding is that .NET core will not include tooling. This project's focused on delivering a framework only, the Open Source Community (Mono Developers i

My understanding is that .NET core will not include tooling. This project's focused on delivering a framework only, the Open Source Community (Mono Developers in this case) will take care of the rest. Now, Xamarin has been doing a good job of creating beautiful and powerful tools, so I assume the tooling will be really good. Hopefully one day we will see Visual Studio supported by Microsoft on Linux and Mac. But I also hope other providers, like Jetbrains step up to make .Net amazing on Linux and Mac. So either way this is amazing.

michaelsbradley 12y ago
Although it's focused only on C# at the moment, OmniSharp seems to be taking cross-platform .NET tooling in a good direction: http://www.omnisharp.net/ http://www.omnisharp.net/
- theflork 12y ago
  intellisense as a service!
- aespinoza 12y ago
  This is a great resources, thanks for sharing. I usually use Xamarin Studio and Emacs in Linux and Mac. OmniSharp integrates with Emacs, that is pretty cool.
blinkingled 12y ago
I think Microsoft will have to step up as well - they have an incentive to do so - Azure. If Azure becomes a #1 platform for people wanting to deploy ASP.NET web apps on Linux they will see some real traction if they make the tooling solid. Otherwise sadly this will be just another niche, also-have thing.
girvo 12y ago
I haven't used Microsoft products full time for... nearly 9 years, now. But if Visual Studio was supported on OSX/Linux, I'd switch to using it (even paying for a license) in a heartbeat -- it's an amazing IDE, and for some features it's unparallelled.
- jdc0589 12y ago
  Out of curiosity, what features are you referring to?
  - Demiurge 12y ago
    I'm not sure what he's talking about, but I haven't found a nicer debugger (for every language it handles) anywhere else.
  - aespinoza 12y ago
    Visual Studio is not just an IDE and a Debugger. It has a Performance Analyzer, Code Coverage for Tests, Dependency Analyzer, Diagram Tools, Concurrency Analyzer, Javascript Analyzer, among others. VS is the complete package for sure.

michaelsbradley 12y ago

Although it's focused only on C# at the moment, OmniSharp seems to be taking cross-platform .NET tooling in a good direction: http://www.omnisharp.net/ http://www.omnisharp.net/

theflork 12y ago
intellisense as a service!
aespinoza 12y ago
This is a great resources, thanks for sharing. I usually use Xamarin Studio and Emacs in Linux and Mac. OmniSharp integrates with Emacs, that is pretty cool.

blinkingled 12y ago

I think Microsoft will have to step up as well - they have an incentive to do so - Azure. If Azure becomes a #1 platform for people wanting to deploy ASP.NET web apps on Linux they will see some real traction if they make the tooling solid. Otherwise sadly this will be just another niche, also-have thing.

girvo 12y ago

I haven't used Microsoft products full time for... nearly 9 years, now. But if Visual Studio was supported on OSX/Linux, I'd switch to using it (even paying for a license) in a heartbeat -- it's an amazing IDE, and for some features it's unparallelled.

jdc0589 12y ago
Out of curiosity, what features are you referring to?
- Demiurge 12y ago
  I'm not sure what he's talking about, but I haven't found a nicer debugger (for every language it handles) anywhere else.
- aespinoza 12y ago
  Visual Studio is not just an IDE and a Debugger. It has a Performance Analyzer, Code Coverage for Tests, Dependency Analyzer, Diagram Tools, Concurrency Analyzer, Javascript Analyzer, among others. VS is the complete package for sure.