In a not-so-surprising announcement, Microsoft confirmed his retirement Visual Studio for Mac Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
The last version of this IDE will be 17.6 and will continue to receive service updates and security patches until August 31, 2024. After that, the company will cease its support.
According to Microsoft, the decision comes after analyzing user feedback and usage patterns. The company aims to focus its resources on optimizing Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, both of which are accessible through the C# Dev Kit.
What will happen;
Microsoft urges them users of to switch to code of Visual Studio combined with the new C# Dev Kit and other related extensions. Developers who still need to use the Visual Studio IDE on Mac systems should run Windows using a virtual μηχανή είτε τοπικά στο Mac είτε μέσω του cloud.
Although the support for new frameworks, runtimes, or languages will not be added to Visual Studio for Mac, it will continue to support .NET 6, .NET 7, and Mono frameworks. Basic support for .NET 8 is also available for building and debugging applications.
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