[swalsh]

I'm not sure i'd use this. Visual studio is a great tool, and is about 90% of the reason I use dot net.

That said, though it's improving, Javascript support still has a long ways to go. I find myself writing increasing amounts of it as Knockout and Angular become standard place. I crave to have some of the features that I have with editing C# while editing javascript.

If you provided that, i'd buy a license. Though my preference would be a plugin (like resharper) as opposed to a whole new editor.

I'd also pay a lot more than $75. I already pay $150 at home, and $300 at work for resharper, i'd pay the same for increased javascript support.

[jchannon]

.Net is going cross platform. What are you going to use if you develop on OSX or Linux? It won't be VS

[l-jenkins]

Unless of course they push to make VS cross platform. I wouldn't be surprised if this is in the works. There has been a huge push at MS to become more cross platform with their product offerings. They must know a lot of their developers run OSX with a Windows VM just to run VS. I know pretty much our entire team does that.

[judah]

As someone who has worked with Visual Studio and integration APIs for a long time, a port of VS across platforms would be a huge undertaking. A rewrite, essentially.

Visual Studio is heavily tied to WPF (Windows-only) presentation framework, COM (Windows-only) for communication across components and plugins, as well as bits of native legacy code throughout (Windows-only.)

Truly, you're looking at rewriting Visual Studio to get it on OSX. Heck, MS would probably be better off just buying Scrawl and rebranding it as Visual Studio for Mac.

And remember: while .NET is going cross-platform, there are no public plans for a cross-platform UI toolkit; there is no cross platform WinForms or WPF from Microsoft.

[alkonaut]

If Microsoft made VS cross platform, they would make a much more lightweight, modular IDE aimed at (initially) C#,VB,F# and javascript. They'd be able to leave out decades of that old COM/Win32/C++ cruft.

Essentially, this is what they would make. Or, they could simply buy this...

[swalsh]

Why do i need to care? Today the only cross platform thing I worry about is if my site works correctly in IE/Firefox/Chrome/Safari. I don't care about my tools, I use windows, in the past I've used windows in a virtual machine on OSX. I'm not worried about it as a web developer.

[bigdubs]

Xamarin Studio.

[wsc981]

Personally I'm not too fond of Xamarin Studio. I really hope Scrawl will be a good alternative for writing C#.

[stirno]

We've got more direct support for Angular, Knockout and React in the backlog but I don't want to lie to you and say its happening tomorrow. Soon though. Thanks for your feedback!