Native builds cross-compiled with a huge standard library and excellent performance. This is just about IDE priorities, and even though I use it I understand that VS Mac was always niche. Linux dotnet devs use VS Code or Rider anyway so no change there, and this just brings Mac in line with them.
Worth remembering in all this that the developers of Go, Python, PHP, Ruby etc (to name a few, all of which I use and am not dissing) don't produce their own IDEs. You wouldn't expect them too, and would never say their cross-platform creds are bad because of it, so why is MS different just because they choose to produce optional extras beyond the basic language tooling? By that logic you'd have to reach the (ridiculous) conclusion that Go, Python, PHP, Ruby etc are even worse for cross-platform. Double standards really.
Native builds cross-compiled with a huge standard library and excellent performance. This is just about IDE priorities, and even though I use it I understand that VS Mac was always niche. Linux dotnet devs use VS Code or Rider anyway so no change there, and this just brings Mac in line with them.
Worth remembering in all this that the developers of Go, Python, PHP, Ruby etc (to name a few, all of which I use and am not dissing) don't produce their own IDEs. You wouldn't expect them too, and would never say their cross-platform creds are bad because of it, so why is MS different just because they choose to produce optional extras beyond the basic language tooling? By that logic you'd have to reach the (ridiculous) conclusion that Go, Python, PHP, Ruby etc are even worse for cross-platform. Double standards really.