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Re:Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024 by thesuperbigfrog on Friday November 03, 2023 @05:57PM (#38135539)
>> the niche market that still depends on it.

That "niche market" likely pulls in billions of dollars from enterprises.

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Re:Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024 by wkat4242 on Friday November 03, 2023 @07:27PM (#38136386)
It does yes but it's no longer a mainstream dev tool really. Which means there is no longer any point in giving it away for free to try and gain more mainstream application marketshare.

They tried to displace Java but failed.

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Re:Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024 by thesuperbigfrog on Friday November 03, 2023 @09:14PM (#38137090)
>> yes but it's no longer a mainstream dev tool really.

C# is currently #5 on Tiobe right behind Java:

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

It is just as mainstream as Java and everything else in the top ten.

>> They tried to displace Java but failed.

Enterprises used to be either Linux / Java shops or Windows / C# / VB shops.

Now both Java and C# are being slowly displaced by Containers, Go, and Rust.

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