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Re:Introducing Visual Studio for Mac by AkirIkasu on Friday April 28, 2017 @02:28PM (#14221851)
It's not incredibly surprising to me (though I am surprised there was no forward announcement before the preview release). It became clear a while back that Microsoft was looking to expand it's developer environment to other platforms when they announced ports for .NET and SQL Server. Don't forget that Visual Studio Code has been cross-platform since inception.
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Re:Introducing Visual Studio for Mac by phren0logy on Friday April 28, 2017 @02:34PM (#14221898)
Right, but I thought that VS Code was going to the only concession to cross-platform coding. It's cross-platform, but built on completely different tech and obviously designed for a different kind of workflow to Visual Studio. I assumed it was intended to be a "gateway drug" to lure a few more people to fully leaded Visual Studio.
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Re:Introducing Visual Studio for Mac by sjg007 on Friday April 28, 2017 @09:33PM (#14224508)
There will be a mindshare battle between .Net, Java, and Go.
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