Microsoft announces that it will discontinue Visual Studio for Mac

a Microsoft Announce today that Visual studio for Mac (IDE¹ Focuses on software development in languages ​​such as C++, C# and above business framework as .NET) will be Stop in the year 2024.

The Redmond giant claimed that it decided to “discontinue” the program due to user feedback and usage patterns. Rather than continue using the tool, the company stated that it intends to “focus on cross-platform solutions.”

From now on, no new frameworks or languages ​​will be added to Visual Studio for Mac, which will continue to receive only core updates (bug fixes and security issues) for another year – specifically, until August 31, 2024, when it will be made available as legacy software on macOS and will no longer be supported.

Until then, in addition to core updates, Microsoft will continue to provide runtime and workload updates – which will allow developers to continue building and shipping apps on Net 6 that it Net 7 and structures Mononucleosis – As well as enabling primitive support for Net 8 To build and debug applications.

For those currently using Visual Studio on macOS, the most obvious solution is to switch to using the software for Windows in a virtual machine on the Mac itself or in the cloud, but Microsoft highlights solutions such as .NET MAUI, Unity, and the recently released C# development toolkit Extensions that extend the functionality of Visual Studio Code and can replace the IDE to some extent in the development process.

These extensions run natively on all supported platforms—which includes macOS—and, according to Microsoft, will continue to get better over time. There are even those who believe that, little by little, these solutions could completely replace Visual Studio – which wouldn’t be surprising, given the company’s heavy investment in VS Code.

via 9to5Mac