Microsoft is Bringing Visual Studio To Mac (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday November 14, 2016 @02:40AM from the new-Microsoft dept.

Microsoft will finally bring Visual Studio, a "true mobile-first, cloud-first development tool for .NET and C#," to Mac later this month, the company has said. From a report on TechCrunch:The IDE is very similar to the one found on Windows. In fact, that is presumably the point. By making it easy for OS X users to switch back and forth between platforms, Microsoft is able to ensure coders can quickly become desktop agnostic or, barring that, give Windows a try again. From the release: "At its heart, Visual Studio for Mac is a macOS counterpart of the Windows version of Visual Studio. If you enjoy the Visual Studio development experience, but need or want to use macOS, you should feel right at home. Its UX is inspired by Visual Studio, yet designed to look and feel like a native citizen of macOS. And like Visual Studio for Windows, it's complemented by Visual Studio Code for times when you don't need a full IDE, but want a lightweight yet rich standalone source editor.

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Almost bought a Windows laptop... by Anonymous Coward · 2016-11-14 02:51 · Score: 2, Informative

I've been debating the past few weeks on whether or not to buy a new Windows laptop just so I could run Visual Studio....this solves that problem, thanks Microsoft!