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Comment by jimmyv1 | Hacker News Reader

What is the difference between this and Visual Studio Mac?

Is there a reason I would pick one over the other?

Visual Studio for Mac (currently available as a preview) is a full IDE, meant to be more like the .NET development experience in Visual Studio for Windows.

Visual Studio Code is a cross-platform programmer's text editor, similar to Sublime or Atom. If you are into .NET, it has a good server-side development experience, but for client-side you'll want to stick with the full Visual Studio IDEs.

Code is very extensible, though, and has support for a ton of platforms that you might not normally see supported in the full IDE. You might prefer it for JavaScript, Go, Rust, etc.

Also, Code works on Linux. :-)

Hope that helps!

Disclaimer: I work on dev tools at Microsoft.

When you say for clientside you would want to stick to the full Visual Studio IDE, do you mean web clientside or clientside as in traditional desktop apps?

If you did mean web clientside could you expand on that?

I meant native desktop and mobile clients. And specifically, I meant client-side .NET programming.

Visual Studio for mac is a IDE. Code is a editor with more

Hmmmm... I'm pretty sure this is Visual Studio Mac though I've never heard it called that before. You can edit and debug C# as well as many other languages with Visual Studio Code on your Mac.

I think they are different? https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/

Yes, they are. See my other reply.

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