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Comment by albertgoeswoof | Hacker News Reader

It's about getting developers back on the MS platform.

e.g. if VS Code and the idea of MS supporting OSS was around 5 years ago, perhaps Windows phone might have had enough apps and been successful.

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To extend on that, dotnetcore is dead in the water without a decent and supported cross-platform development experience. Visual Studio and vsmac get the job done for now, but for the long run they need something that also works on linux and is consistent across all three platforms.

VSCode and the dotnet cli tooling fill this role on Linux. The tools are consistent across all three platforms.

I've had no end of trouble using .NET on Linux in the past couple of years. Most of my existing projects are broken, too.

Were you using Mono or .NET Core/Standard?

Both at different times. My Mono projects started breaking and getting .NET Core/Standard running on anything but their blessed distros is difficult.

There are supported Docker (Linux) containers which can be used as is or extracted and come with needed libraries.

That doesn't count, not even a little bit.

Actually the C# plugin for VisualStudio Code does an amazing job supporting .NET Core (on any platform).

I stopped using VisualStudio in favor of Code in regards of .NET Core development.

I think bunder's point is that VSCode is the "something that also works on linux and is consistent across all three platforms".

Oh. Yes. Agree, it can be read like that :)

Thanks. Yeah, that was my point exactly.

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