[5e92cb50239222b]

> Microsoft has discovered that the "other platforms" are very important

Very important to be able to run applications, not to develop them. I spent a few years doing dotnet development on Linux and have had enough of it (so I'm moving away to JVM which looks more and more interesting as long-term research projects and some language improvements land). It is very much a second class citizen. They still want to force developers use Windows and their tooling.

[torginus]

This hasn't been my experience tbh. Sure, VS doesn't exist on Linux, but VS isn't the best .NET dev environment (even with Resharper), Jetbrains' Rider is, and I haven't felt like the experience is any different on Linux, compared to Windows. The command line tooling introduced with .NET Core is excellent, I usually prefer it to clicking around in a GUI, and it works perfectly on Linux. VS Code also has full .NET support, and uses the same autocomplete engine as VS does. Imo it's not as good as Rider, but not worse than the support for other languages, like Go where it's my go-to editor.

[dgellow]

Would you mind going more into details? Jetbrain’s IDE + dotnet CLI offers a very compelling experience on both macOS and Linux.