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

I didn’t know about that, but apparently, Visual Studio was available for Mac for all these years. Well, that is about to change, because as Anthony Cangialosi from Microsoft announced yesterday, Visual Studio Mac bye bye.

Source: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/

To put it into perspective, we have to recall some important facts:

1. Windows is the most popular operating system among programmers both for private and professional use
2. Visual Studio is the second most popular IDE for programmers

Microsoft pulling the plug on the support for its OS competitor is really important news. But not in a way, you’d think about it.

Source: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#technology

Firstly, I personally think that Visual Studio days were counted already years ago, when Visual Studio Code was born. And I believe at the end Visual Studio Code will replace Visual Studio.

Secondly, it’s not a sign of a fight between OS vendors, but a sign that Microsoft just started to save money. As someone who worked with a lot of Microsoft tools, I know what they never announce any hard deadlines. They usually…