Microsoft has introduced it’s ending help for the Visible Studio for Mac IDE.

As an alternative, the corporate will focus its efforts on enhancing the primary Visible Studio utility, which might be accessed on Mac, and any working system, by Microsoft Dev Field. 

“Whereas the choice has been made to retire Visible Studio for Mac, we stay dedicated to our builders on Mac with options just like the just lately introduced C# Dev Package for VS Code and different extensions that can can help you reap the benefits of our ongoing investments in .NET improvement on a Mac,” Anthony Cangialosi, group product supervisor of the developer division at Microsoft, wrote in a weblog put up. 

The corporate will help Visible Studio for Mac 17.6 for yet another 12 months, till the tip of subsequent August. This help will embrace safety updates and updates associated to platform upgrades from Apple. It is not going to add new frameworks, runtimes, or language help from this level ahead. 

After August 31, 2024, Visible Studio for Mac will solely be accessible as a legacy set up with no help or maintainance. 

As talked about earlier, there are nonetheless a number of methods Mac builders can make the most of Visible Studio going ahead. Along with utilizing Microsoft Dev Field to entry it, Mac builders can entry Visible Studio by C# Dev Package for VS Code extension or by working a Home windows surroundings in a digital machine. In response to Microsoft, utilizing a digital machine “will cowl the broadest IDE wants resembling legacy challenge help for Xamarin, F#, and distant improvement experiences on iOS through the use of a digital machine,” Cangialosi wrote.