Getting back into Unity - Visual Studio install on mac?

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About three years ago I was heavy into unity, published a game on mobile platforms, blah blah blah.

I have a new mac and have Unity installed. I noticed that visual studio isn’t included in the install anymore, weird but anyway. I went to install Visual Studio and it is saying that I need to have Parrallels installed also and it’s $99 a year?

I really liked the Visual Studio editor when I used it before. What’s everyone doing to get Visual Studio installed? I see that there are alternatives to Parallels but wasn’t sure which one the Unity community suggested.

Thanks in advance for any responses to this post. Can’t wait to get back into Unity development.

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microsoft is dropping mac vs,

i don’t know what the alternatives are.. vs code, rider (paid) perhaps?

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Thanks for the reply. I saw that. I guess I will just use VS for Mac until then and then see what the alternatives are at that time when they drop support.

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It’s missing breakpoints but there’s also Script Inspector 3 which runs inside of the editor and is very lightweight.

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/visual-scripting/script-inspector-3-3535

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doesn’t that new vscode plugin allow that?
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/announcing-the-unity-extension-for-visual-studio-code/

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I meant Script Inspector 3 is missing breakpoints.