Microsoft’s phasing out Visual Studio for MacOS, force moves developers to Visual Studio Code

<p>I didn&rsquo;t know about that, but apparently,&nbsp;<a href="https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Visual Studio</a>&nbsp;was available for Mac for all these years. Well, that is about to change, because as&nbsp;<a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-for-mac-retirement-announcement/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Anthony Cangialosi</a>&nbsp;from Microsoft announced yesterday, Visual Studio Mac bye bye.</p> <p><img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:700/1*vD7FI4XeApgJeQeUqjg3-Q.png" style="height:434px; width:700px" /></p> <p>Source:&nbsp;<a href="https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/</a></p> <p>To put it into perspective, we have to recall some important facts:</p> <ol> <li>Windows is the&nbsp;<a href="https://tomaszs2.medium.com/please-stop-laying-that-developers-prefer-macos-f36ef5d40ff" rel="noopener">most popular operating</a>&nbsp;system among programmers both for private and professional use</li> <li>Visual Studio is the second most popular IDE for&nbsp;<a href="https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#technology" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">programmers</a></li> </ol> <p>Microsoft pulling the plug on the support for its OS competitor is really important news. But not in a way, you&rsquo;d think about it.</p> <p><a href="https://tomaszs2.medium.com/microsofts-phasing-out-visual-studio-for-macos-force-moves-developers-to-visual-studio-code-16182121f609"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>