Who actually is the intended user of this? If you are developing for the windows ecosystem then surely you have a windows OS. If you are not, why would you pick this tool on a mac rather than any other available one?
Preview 9 of Visual Studio for Mac is out as GA approaches
Microsoft has made available an updated preview of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac, addressing what it described as the "top reported issues" in preview 9. The VS team's move could be seen as an example to the Windows crew, following an "Ask Microsoft Anything" in which Microsoft didn't seem convinced by calls to "Bring back the …
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Wednesday 13th April 2022 16:47 GMT karlkarl
It is so then Microsoft can claim their actual Visual Studio product is completely cross platform, attracting more users on Windows thinking they can "just hop onto different platforms" when inevitably needed.
What Microsoft doesn't seem to say is that VS, VS Mac and VS Code are completely different IDEs and have almost no compatibility or inoperability between one another. Even the trivial make/nmake utility is incompatible.
Whilst it is a bit of a "con", it isn't so much of an issue when most guys use CMake now anyway. That does much of the heavy lifting thankfully.
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Wednesday 13th April 2022 20:09 GMT Anonymous Coward
Strange questions and answers so far, my guess it's about the product.
I have untold hours behind vim. Thousands behind emacs. Around 5000 behind CodeBlocks. Maybe 2000 behind eclipse. Maybe 500 behind other 1-off editors like VSCode. A few.other IDEs along the journey. Out of all those hours, the several thousand I put behind MS Studio was the smoothest, at least as far as C++ went (debugging init used to be legendary).
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