[solarkraft]

I agree with most of your points, but also really dislike Visual Studio. Rider has very good compatibility (unless you care about the constant hangs and crashes and buggy, nonsensically laid out eye sore UI and dumb defaults and ...) and VSCode (the one with all the proprietary Microsoft stuff) is quite usable. What kind of blew me away was finding out that they support Jupyter notebooks now.

The Visual Studio team seems to dislike dotnet supporting other platforms, but it's one of the most critical things for its survival. The more the VS team hates it, the more likely it's to be the right choice (probably a good rule of thumb for building IDEs too).

[cutler]

Microsoft's multi-platform play is only skin-deep. Witness the lag in features for Visual Studio for Mac which will not be getting .Net MAUI compatibility until a long time after the Windows version.

[solarkraft]

Visual Studio for Mac is yet another branding fail. It's just Xamarin/Mono Studio and has very little to do with the VS code base.