Visual Studio for Mac

Re:Visual Studio for Mac by anupshinde on Monday November 14, 2016 @07:50AM (#12949452)

This is great news! I was a c# developer for many years and absolutely loved it. But then I gave up the Microsoft ecosystem 7 years back just because it felt like a lock-in and also a bit backward compared to non-MS tech.

But in the past one year, Microsoft has got me in again: a. Moved to TypeScript from JavaScript (including my hobby projects) b. Moved to VSCode from Sublime c. C# is a great language and I just hate Java. Hope this and more steps make it easy to use C# and deploy in non-MS environments.

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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by Clubber on Monday November 14, 2016 @08:20AM (#12949625)

C# is a lot different today than it was 7 years ago. You might be in for a shock. The nice thing is you can develop it today as you did 7 years ago, but with heavy use of lambdas and var, it reads almost like another language.

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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by littlegreenb18 on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:11AM (#12950215)

7 years ago was 2009. var, lambdas, and linq were already in pretty heavy use by then. The biggest change since then is the dynamic language runtime, but I don't really see that used much in c#.

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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by MichaelGG on Monday November 14, 2016 @10:22AM (#12950313)

Those improvements came out 9 years ago.

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