They are discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac, aka Xamarin Studio aka Monodevelop.

Visual Studio Code is a completely different product (to be fair so is Visual Studio itself for that matter..)

Why did Microsoft overload the "Visual" keyword so much. It's almost a joke at this point.

Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Visual Basic .NET, Visual Basic Classic, VBScript.

Am I forgetting anything?

Visual C++, Visual J++, Visual FoxPro, Visual SourceSafe,

Visual Source Safe, but that's best forgotten.

Microsoft has always been terrible at naming things.

Their word processor is called Word. Their sql server is called Sql Server. Their IM is called MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger/Messenger/Skype/Lync/Skype For Business/Teams

I'm not sure about Word, I think it's not such a bad name and it's pretty much a synonym for 'text editor' at this point, not sure you can do much better than that. Certainly not a worse name than 'Writer' (sounds a bit clunky), maybe on par with Pages.

Don't all companies do that. Even Apple isn't immune with the ridiculously named AirPods Max.

Pretty sure that's only for Visual Studio not VS Code.

Different software, Visual Studio Code is continuing, Visual Studio for Mac is being discontinued.

This is about VSCode. MS is discontinuing Mac support for Visual Studio.

It's not even support for visual studio - it's a completely different product spun out of monodevelop they acquired with xamarin.

Anything xamarin related (MAUI, VS for Mac) is extreme level of garbage - such low standard of quality is really doing .NET/Visual Studio brands a disservice.

Seems that they've pretty much just bought Xamarin to kill it (besides actually properly porting .NET itself to other platforms which they could've done anyway). It seemed like a pretty cool product showing some promise 7-8 years ago.