I see this thread has been going on for 4 years and there's been no effort from microsoft to support linux developers. I do not understand why VS for mac already exists and for Linux nothing !!Īlong with the 1,873 votes (they totaled 481 in December 2020), the request generated 303 comments, which are also still rolling in this month, nearly four years later. We need a lot of MS IDE for Linux, VSCode is very good for front end, but we have specific needs in the backend that only an IDE can supply. Posted even longer ago (October 2018), that request reads: Top Items on Microsoft Developer Community Site (source: Microsoft).

If there is any update, I will also add it here. You can also add your comments in there to track the process, then we need to waiting for the response comes from the product team engineers. In addition, for your requirement, it has been reported here: Visual Studio for Linux. You could try to running a Virtual Machine with Windows. But the Visual Studio IDE is only available for Windows. That 'decade-old question' continues to be basically ignored by Microsoft, with an employee responding:Īccording to your description, you would like to use the Visual Studio for Linux. NET 6 unifies all platforms, is there a chance we can see it ported? I'm sure there are a lot of people wishing it too. And since they just can't keep up with the real VS IDE, they left developing it.

There already is 'Visual Studio for macOS', ported from the MonoDevelop. And sometimes, it just isn't performing good enough or have enough features. Yes, we have VSCode, but the performance isn't always there. But I'm on Linux, as a platform of choice(Arch Linux, to be specific), and sometimes I miss the good tool VS. C# is my first and favourite language and I just can't get enough of it. NET, improvements and opportunities it gives.

NET Team is pushing so hard in the cross-platform solutions, will the Linux community see Visual Studio run on Linux? Since it is a great IDE with amazing tools, some of us are wondering will we see it on our preferred OS? I'm in love with the. Posted way back in late 2020 - with comments continuing up to this month - the question reads:

Top Items on Microsoft Q&A Site (source: Microsoft).

Vs studio for linux