Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac after a years-long effort to get the IDE up to par with the Windows version. Finally, today Microsoft threw in the towel, switching its Mac ambitions to VS ...

Microsoft makes mention of the official C# Dev Kit extension for VS Code as an alternative for Mac users, alongside its Dev Box cloud VMs (or any other VM you can use Windows with on a Mac).

In a recent announcement, Microsoft revealed the Visual Studio for Mac Integrated Development Environment (IDE) retirement. As of August 31, 2024, Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will discontinue receiving ...

News Microsoft Ending Visual Studio for Mac Product Next Year Microsoft suggested developers using Macs could use alternative IDEs, such as Visual Studio Code. By David Ramel 08/31/2023 ...

Microsoft has announced it is retiring Visual Studio for Mac and that support for the latest version, 17.6, will continue for another year, until August 31, 2024.

According to Microsoft, Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31, 2024.

But I don't know how many Linux devs use .NET / C#. For Windows users: use VS Community / VS Professional -- no need to reimplement its features in VS Code. For Mac: VS for Mac needs some polishing.

VS Code has barely been released and can already handle OpenAI's latest language model GPT-5. It should bring advantages in reasoning, programming and chat.

Able to run on Windows, Linux, or Mac, exceedingly extensible, with excellent support for remote development, Visual Studio Code fills many of the gaps in Microsoft’s developer story.