Why would anyone want to use Visual Studio on Linux? Honestly, now. īTW 2 - MonoDevelop and Mono are totally unreliable and they are not the same as. Even when they come up with something (MBrace for F#/C#), they just don't promote it.īTW 1 - Installing stuff on a VM loaded on a base OS does not make sense as it just eats away a lot of resources. A lot of hype around big data and data science, yet anywhere you look you see JVM and Python. I just wished they had waw better policy for promoting them. It would only hugely boost their OPEN presence and reputation. I really do hope they do begin to offer their products on Linux as well. The main reasons I migrated back to Windows, frankly was no reliable support for. However, since they will be busy with the Core, I doubt they would spend any resources on stuff like VS. I think the platform could use a lot more MS in it and VS +. In Linux, your options are pretty limited to the likes of horrible Eclipse. Nothing else even comes close to the quality of VS anywhere.

Here's a sampling of some of the comments: NET Core), to flatly denying it will ever happen, to suggesting alternatives like Avalonia and JetBrains Rider. Of course, there's plenty of lively discussion among the comments that did survive, ranging from suggesting something similar to VS for Mac (which someone pointed out is based on MonoDevelop, not.

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