Today we are announcing the retirement of the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. Visual Studio for Mac 17.6 will continue to be supported for another 12 months, until August 31st, 2024, with servicing updates for security issues and updated platforms from Apple.
    • loics2@lemm.ee
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      10 months ago

      Well at this point, don't trust any framework Microsoft pushes. They told everyone UWP was the future for Windows after WPF, then stopped for WinUI and the app SDK...

    • Spyros@programming.dev
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      10 months ago

      I have started using Avalonia, and even though I am still learning, I am very satisfied with it. There are growing pains obviously, but as you said, I have no confidence in Microsoft UI frameworks.

    • wth@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      MAUI’s pretty undercooked at the moment. Editing UIs in raw XML, incomplete control set, bugs.

      One day could be useful, and there are some 3rd parties providing controls… but of course this is microsoft so they will work on it for 2-3 years, and then write something new, throwing MAUI into the dustbin.

  • charlybones@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    In my previous company I used VS for Mac, it wasn’t a great experience… but it was better than nothing. Then along came a Rider license…

    The tooling for VS Code might have improved, but Rider is the IDE of choice… even on windows.

  • revs@feddit.uk
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    10 months ago

    Not surprised after the the main VS Mac developer left MS a few months ago.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      10 months ago

      I'm not surprised lol.

      At my workplace I occasionally do work on an AutoCAD lisp add-in, half the time I don't know what I'm doing when something isn't quite working right 😭

      My manager is tempted to drop support because none of us really know what we're doing with it... the original dev is long gone and none of us know LISP