Visual Studio Mac?

[Gendo]

Hi,

I’ve got a Mac recently and wonder what IDE is best, Visual Studio Mac seems oriented towards mobile and not sure how it interact with Unity as I have to get filesystems to cooperate before I give it a good go.

Looking for a Windows VS experience, is the Mac version recommended?

[CommanderDog]

Are you talking about Visual Studio Code on the Mac? I’ve been using that for about a week now and it works quite well so far. It’s a lot nicer than MonoDevelop, IMHO. Haven’t done any debugging yet so I can’t speak to how well that integrates, but there is a first-party extension for VS Code for this purpose.

EDIT: I see now that there is a different product called Visual Studio for Mac, which I assume you are referring to. My apologies.

[Gendo]

@CommanderDog

Are you talking about Visual Studio Code on the Mac? I’ve been using that for about a week now and it works quite well so far. It’s a lot nicer than MonoDevelop, IMHO. Haven’t done any debugging yet so I can’t speak to how well that integrates, but there is a first-party extension for VS Code for this purpose.

EDIT: I see now that there is a different product called Visual Studio for Mac, which I assume you are referring to. My apologies.

I’ve tried VS Mac (huge download) but it’s nothing like the Windows version, will give Code a go.

[CommanderDog]

@Gendo

I’ve tried VS Mac (huge download) but it’s nothing like the Windows version, will give Code a go.

I don’t think you will find VS Code to be anything like the Windows Visual Studio you’re accustomed to. It’s more similar to Atom. But it’s highly customizable and for Unity development I much prefer it to MonoDevelop.