At Connect(); in November, Microsoft is launching a preview of Visual Studio for Mac. This is an exciting development, evolving the mobile-centric Xamarin Studio IDE into a true mobile-first, cloud-first development tool for .NET and C#, and bringing the Visual Studio development experience to the Mac.
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The post has been removed. No idea what’s going on there.
Premature announcement?
Yes. I’ve been told the announcement wasn’t supposed to take place until next week.
Exactly that, it looks like it is just a week early. Good detective work on OS News for finding it!
This was all over Hacker News yesterday. Os News did diddle squat I’m afraid.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12948043
Edited 2016-11-15 15:14 UTC
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https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Vk2On-9psscJ:h…
i’m on mobile, i hope this helps.
That’s endemic in Microsoft site. They move stuff around breaking links.
Edited 2016-11-14 14:16 UTC
This is Xamarin Studio IDE renamed to Visual Studio Mac – which is not the same as Visual Studio IDE for Windows. I think calling every IDE that MS buys or makes Visual Studio just makes things really confusing (Visual Studio Code for example).
It may also indicate a willingness to iterate forward toward VS functionality
It indicates that the convergence of the two platforms will slowly happen. But it doesn’t promise anything too specific.
This is what Microsft should have been doing from the start, making it seamless and easy to write and app for Android/iOS and then port it to Windows.
One step of that is allowing people to continue to develop on their Macs (from my expirience a lot of app development takes place on the mac to easily do Android and iOS)
My mind still at
“un lugar de La Mancha de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme”.
Congratulations to Microsoft People and Community.
As a C++ developer on MacOS, I sorely miss Visual Studio. It looks like this is for mobile and .NET development only. Visual Studio Code on MacOS supports C++. It will be interesting to see if and when they expand the scope of VS for Mac.
Not trolling here, this is a genuine question:
What do you develop C++ code in Mac for?
Well, not C++ but you can develop Mac apps.
Is it possible we would have the Microsoft Visual Studio for Linux?(!Visual Studio Code)
The Linux Community has been always a lot more strict with User Space in General and Merchandising in Particular. Interesting question
The full McCoy could be an expensive endeavor. Where the return could come from?
Linux really burnt its bridges with Mono, so it will take a while for them to recover from that.