> Once the wheels fall off Visual Studio for Mac, Microsoft recommends accessing its IDE through Windows in a machine virtual on the Mac or in the cloud.
Hmm that sounds appealing /s
JetBrains Rider is the only viable alternative now.
VS Code on Mac may catch up, but I dislike it as my primary IDE for C# (great for lots of other things though).
Overall I think this is a mistake on Microsoft’s part unless they are also planning a significant move to pull out of cross-platform app development too (ie iOS/Android + desktop).
They are crippling the app development story for .NET on Mac now IMHO, and it wasn’t great to start with. This weakens an already quite fragile ecosystem for creating Mac/iOS apps with .NET. This is on top of MAUI being launched before it was ready and Xamarin being discontinued much too quickly.
This seems like a strong indicator to me that I should not pick .NET for greenfield cross-platform (mobile) app projects going forwards.
Hmm that sounds appealing /s
JetBrains Rider is the only viable alternative now.
VS Code on Mac may catch up, but I dislike it as my primary IDE for C# (great for lots of other things though).
Overall I think this is a mistake on Microsoft’s part unless they are also planning a significant move to pull out of cross-platform app development too (ie iOS/Android + desktop).
They are crippling the app development story for .NET on Mac now IMHO, and it wasn’t great to start with. This weakens an already quite fragile ecosystem for creating Mac/iOS apps with .NET. This is on top of MAUI being launched before it was ready and Xamarin being discontinued much too quickly.
This seems like a strong indicator to me that I should not pick .NET for greenfield cross-platform (mobile) app projects going forwards.