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Re: Visual Studio for Mac

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Post by maykr »

So as for now it is the rebranded and polished Xamarin Studio - hopefully, they have improved it's usability as in the past it was pretty lacking compared to VS 2013/2015

Re: Visual Studio for Mac

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Post by cm2187 »

SiVal wrote: post #17

So Microsoft is treating the Mac more seriously as a professional platform while Apple is treating it less seriously? I'm not saying this in a snarky way; I mean it literally as a change of corporate strategies in both companies. Microsoft seems to be saying, If you are a pro mainly using the Mac for professional work, we want to do a better job of empowering you, and Apple seems to be saying, If you are a pro mainly…

People aren't going to do development on a tablet or a smartphone anytime soon.

Re: Visual Studio for Mac

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Post by Kipters »

jpalomaki wrote: post #15

Interesting, but I can also see some risks with their approach. Now they have three different Visual Studios with completely different technology stacks. 1) Visual Studio for Windows (C++, I assume?) 2) Visual Studio Code (Javascript, Atom) 3) Visual Studio for Mac (C#)

Visual Studio for Windows is written in C# with WPF, but your point is still valid since they are two different codebases

Re: Visual Studio for Mac

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Post by simooooo »

alex4Zero wrote: post #19

It is based on Xamarin Studio. I work with XS on OSX last 3 years. Unfortunatelly, Xamarin Studio has a lot of issues with performance, refactoring, it crashes from time to time. I think it will be better to wait for release of Project Rider. At least EAP is already available

Waiting for it to bring core support then I'll be trying it

Re: Visual Studio for Mac

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Post by rimantas »

SiVal wrote: post #17

So Microsoft is treating the Mac more seriously as a professional platform while Apple is treating it less seriously? I'm not saying this in a snarky way; I mean it literally as a change of corporate strategies in both companies. Microsoft seems to be saying, If you are a pro mainly using the Mac for professional work, we want to do a better job of empowering you, and Apple seems to be saying, If you are a pro mainly…

Apple is not saying anything like this, just a bunch of whiners twisting things. Just like they did after any Mac upgrade.

Re: Visual Studio for Mac

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Post by alex4Zero »

maykr wrote: post #23

So as for now it is the rebranded and polished Xamarin Studio - hopefully, they have improved it's usability as in the past it was pretty lacking compared to VS 2013/2015

I think Microsoft will end-of-life Xamarin Studio and will convert it to Visual Studio brand with just support of OSX and Linux
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