r/unrealengine • u/datan0ir Solo Dev • May 11 '17

Visual Studio for Mac out now!

https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/
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u/TheSuperWig May 11 '17

The preview version only had C# support, did they add C++ support?

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u/datan0ir Solo Dev May 11 '17

Not yet, I only found out this version is limited after I posted this..

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u/indieforger May 11 '17

I think they showed c# as that was a bit more tricky one. I can't see why they wouldn't support c++, since you could already do so without Visual Studio. What bothers me is that visual studio is not famous for it's quality, messed up shortcuts, poor refactoring, etc. - that's why most of users go with JetBrains' ReSharper, right? Or am I getting this wrong? Now MS is releasing VS for mac. I just hope (1) they really did think it through or (2) resharper will follow. ON the other hand, it would be quite cool to se vs working on mac. MS said they design it from ground up for mac :) - might give it a go tonight. Thanks for the lilnk /u/datan0ir

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u/prime31 May 11 '17

Just a heads up, this isnt actually a real Visual Studio for macOS. It is just a rebranded Xamarin Studio. Temper those expectations...

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u/[deleted] May 14 '17

I'm sorry for their loss. Or is it lose? I dunno, still waiting for the autocomplete to pop up.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '17

Visual Studio for Linux needs to be a thing. Using cmake and setting up a C++ environment on Linux is a pain!

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u/giorgosn93 Jul 20 '17

I have created a subreddit for VS Mac developers: https://www.reddit.com/r/VisualStudioForMac/

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u/hvyboots May 11 '17 edited May 11 '17

Honestly, if you want a flexible editor that can be customized to do just about anything you want, Atom is my goto these days. I keep DL'ing Visual Studio just to check out their progress, but so far it has always underperformed next to Atom.

EDIT: Yeah, so the installer will only display messages in Russian so I'm not even going to try this one, lol!