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If they had VS on OSX I'd definitely give it a shot. Unfortunately, they don't, yet.

by antihero 11y ago

robotresearcher 11y ago
Works fine in a Windows VM.
- JustSomeNobody 11y ago
  Of course it does, but that's not exactly the same thing, now is it?
  - dogma1138 11y ago
    why not? with parallels or a similar transparent solution why would you care? Heck most modern solutions even setup all the environment variables and paths so you barely even notice that you are on a different file system when you using them.
    - tracker1 11y ago
      Honestly, it's kind of annoying... firing up a Windows VM cuts my battery life significantly. Ubuntu behaves itself. That's just the start... I do a lot of .Net development, and more JS/Node development... I don't miss VS or windows most of the time.
    - e12e 11y ago
      Why would you pay for two OS licences when you've got an OS you're happy with? Sure, you might choose an OS based on the applications available (eg I strongly preferDebian GNU/Linux because of apt-get and xmonad) -- switching OS to use a tool seems like a bit of a stretch though. If you like the MS toolset, by all means use Windows. But using a vm for especially a gui program (which then interacts poorly with your os ui) seems like a sub-optimal solution?
    - rayiner 11y ago
      Running Windows in a VM eats your battery alive.
- farresito 11y ago
  There really is no point in using OSX if you need to keep some tools in Windows and some others in Mac.
  - eropple 11y ago
    That's not true at all. I'd much, much rather have OS X's build of Photoshop even when using it with a game I'm writing in C# and it's much easier to quickly munge things using rbenv-managed Ruby than to fight with cygwin or RubyInstaller.
    - farresito 11y ago
      That comes as a surprise. I expected Photoshop to be very similar between Mac and Windows. What's the biggest difference?
      - eropple 11y ago
        The application's similar, but the drivers aren't. Wacom's drivers and configuration management are a lot more finicky under Windows. Another helpful thing: Core Audio is about as fast as ASIO is under Windows, making music and SFX more pleasant to work on here--even, again, when writing a game in C#. (Even discounting that Logic doesn't run at all under Windows.) It also has the nice side effect of not making me hate the computer I'm using and the project I am working on. The more things I have to touch on Windows, the more unhappy I am; I find it to be unpleasant and death-by-a-thousand-cuts draining to use for more than casual use (I own a Surface Pro 3, but only because I got it very cheap). There are two applications open in my Parallels virtual machine: Sublime Text (for editing YAML files) and Visual Studio for working on code--it's the minimal set of things I have to touch to use C# for development.
        uptownJimmy 11y ago
        I use Parallels on my MacBook for VS and SSMS, and that is all. But it's a perfect dev setup. I adore the MS dev stack. It's insanely powerful, and quite elegant.
croddin 11y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they added this to VS Code, which is available for mac. That would be nice.

If they had VS on OSX I'd definitely give it a shot. Unfortunately, they don't, yet.

robotresearcher 11y ago

Works fine in a Windows VM.

JustSomeNobody 11y ago
Of course it does, but that's not exactly the same thing, now is it?
- dogma1138 11y ago
  why not? with parallels or a similar transparent solution why would you care? Heck most modern solutions even setup all the environment variables and paths so you barely even notice that you are on a different file system when you using them.
  - tracker1 11y ago
    Honestly, it's kind of annoying... firing up a Windows VM cuts my battery life significantly. Ubuntu behaves itself. That's just the start... I do a lot of .Net development, and more JS/Node development... I don't miss VS or windows most of the time.
  - e12e 11y ago
    Why would you pay for two OS licences when you've got an OS you're happy with? Sure, you might choose an OS based on the applications available (eg I strongly preferDebian GNU/Linux because of apt-get and xmonad) -- switching OS to use a tool seems like a bit of a stretch though. If you like the MS toolset, by all means use Windows. But using a vm for especially a gui program (which then interacts poorly with your os ui) seems like a sub-optimal solution?
  - rayiner 11y ago
    Running Windows in a VM eats your battery alive.
farresito 11y ago
There really is no point in using OSX if you need to keep some tools in Windows and some others in Mac.
- eropple 11y ago
  That's not true at all. I'd much, much rather have OS X's build of Photoshop even when using it with a game I'm writing in C# and it's much easier to quickly munge things using rbenv-managed Ruby than to fight with cygwin or RubyInstaller.
  - farresito 11y ago
    That comes as a surprise. I expected Photoshop to be very similar between Mac and Windows. What's the biggest difference?
    - eropple 11y ago
      The application's similar, but the drivers aren't. Wacom's drivers and configuration management are a lot more finicky under Windows. Another helpful thing: Core Audio is about as fast as ASIO is under Windows, making music and SFX more pleasant to work on here--even, again, when writing a game in C#. (Even discounting that Logic doesn't run at all under Windows.) It also has the nice side effect of not making me hate the computer I'm using and the project I am working on. The more things I have to touch on Windows, the more unhappy I am; I find it to be unpleasant and death-by-a-thousand-cuts draining to use for more than casual use (I own a Surface Pro 3, but only because I got it very cheap). There are two applications open in my Parallels virtual machine: Sublime Text (for editing YAML files) and Visual Studio for working on code--it's the minimal set of things I have to touch to use C# for development.
      - uptownJimmy 11y ago
        I use Parallels on my MacBook for VS and SSMS, and that is all. But it's a perfect dev setup. I adore the MS dev stack. It's insanely powerful, and quite elegant.

croddin 11y ago

I wouldn't be surprised if they added this to VS Code, which is available for mac. That would be nice.