{"id":1637,"date":"2023-08-31T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T16:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/?p=1637"},"modified":"2023-08-31T10:23:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T16:23:53","slug":"c-on-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/31\/c-on-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"C# on the mac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Well there&#8217;s a bummer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MS is ceasing development of VS on macOS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too bad<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.xojo.com\/2023\/08\/31\/microsofts-visual-studio-for-mac-discontinued-is-it-really-safer-to-buy-from-a-big-name\/\">some<\/a> would have you believe that this is the end of C# on macOS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not true<br>Unlike other proprietary tools that have a single IDE &amp; compiler from one company C# has alternatives that can read &amp; write VS projects and compile them on the Mac. <a href=\"https:\/\/dotnet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/platform\/free\">It&#8217;s open sourced.<\/a> Heck MS even made <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dotnet\/roslyn\">Roslyn<\/a>, their compiler infrastructure open source.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jetbrains.com\/rider\/\">Rider<\/a>, from the JetBrains folks, works just fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes its not free like VS was &#8211; unfortunate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But its not exactly expensive either<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"410\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-31-at-10.16.44-AM.png?resize=410%2C461&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-31-at-10.16.44-AM.png?w=410&amp;ssl=1 410w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-31-at-10.16.44-AM.png?resize=267%2C300&amp;ssl=1 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And if you REALLY want their super duper &#8220;do anything in any language we support&#8221; package<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"737\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-31-at-10.18.17-AM.png?resize=413%2C737&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-31-at-10.18.17-AM.png?w=413&amp;ssl=1 413w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot-2023-08-31-at-10.18.17-AM.png?resize=168%2C300&amp;ssl=1 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Still VERY affordable<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will I miss VS ? yeah a bit &#8211; but I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll manage to carry on on my mac<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well there&#8217;s a bummer MS is ceasing development of VS on macOS Too bad And some would have you believe that this is the end of C# on macOS. Not trueUnlike other proprietary tools that have a single IDE &amp; compiler from one company C# has alternatives that can read &amp; write VS projects and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/31\/c-on-the-mac\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;C# on the mac&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1640,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1637\/revisions\/1640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.great-white-software.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}