Hi, Rajen Kishna here, Product Manager on Visual Studio for Mac. It definitely is more than Xamarin, we brought in support for creating web apps and services with .NET Core/ASP.NET Core, game development with Unity and C#, and cloud integration with publishing your web apps/services to Azure directly from within the IDE. We're also announcing some preview features coming very soon, including Docker and Azure Functions support, as well as targeting IoT devices like Android Things. Lots of goodies to be had!

Sweet thanks for the feedback - this is definitely a step in the right direction.

Bring it on!

Yes, you can build .NET Core service apps.

You can create new projects, debug them and bonus points - deploy directly to Azure.