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Visual Studio for Mac Retirement Announcement - Visual Studio Blog (devblogs.microsoft.com)
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[-] Spyros@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

MonoDevelop died for this.

(Disclaimer: I haven't used MonoDevelop to know its quality, I'm just tempted by the idea of a free cross-platform .NET IDE. Microsoft took MonoDevelop, forked it into VS for Mac, left the former stagnate, and now is killing its closed-source descendant.)

[-] MasterBuilder@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Vs code fits the bill as a good cross platform .NET IDE. It is also a really good Standalone text editor.

[-] douglasg14b@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

VS Code honestly kind of sucks for it, there's just so many small things missing or lacking.

Check out Rider, I was honestly surprised and switched over to it after 8 years of visual studio.

[-] winky88@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago

Rider is awesome - totally understated even if JetBrains does have a big fan base. If you'll notice, most non-MS video bloggers use it, and for good reason.

[-] Spyros@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

It's a great text editor, yes. An IDE though, it is not. It gets close with various addons, but it's still not the same experience.

[-] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Rider is less bloated and stupid

[-] tonytins@pawb.social 3 points 1 year ago

This explains why the latest preview didn't have 8.0 support.

[-] computertoucher5000@programming.dev -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not staking out the position that one is objectively better than the other by saying any of this:

I recently adopted neovim and I think it's going to be very hard to make me leave it. On the one hand, I love some of the vscode extensions I've got going, on the other hand, neovim + lazygit somehow just invokes the flow_state() much quicker-at least purely from the standpoint of being in an editor.

What's up with that?

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