[mkr-hn]

Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are completely different things. VSC can do a subset of what VS can do, but some people really need the full power of a traditional IDE. VS vs VSC is like the difference between a smartphone camera and a full camera platform. You can rig up an iPhone (VSC) to do everything a D6 (VS) can do, but it won't be as usable.

[esclerofilo]

But Visual Studio 2019 is available for mac.

[my123]

It shares some code nowadays (started with a MonoDevelop codebase). However, Visual Studio (not Code) for Mac is mostly targeted at at C# or mobile development.

If you want to make Windows apps, it just doesn't support that scenario.

[vips7L]

And they just announced they’re rewriting it to native for Mac in 2022…