If you look in the lower-right corner there in Visual Studio Code you can see the OmniSharp flame logo in the corner, helping power the C# Extension for Visual Studio Code. It's also one of the best node.js editors/debuggers anywhere - nice if you're working on multi-language projects. Visual Studio Codeįirst, there's Visual Studio Code (more of a code editor, but with a TON of plugins and extensions) that is a very competent editor for. NET development on non-Windows platforms. It's a coincidence, but I want to be transparent about it as I don't do sponsored/directed blog posts - rather, folks sponsor a calendar week.įast forward a bit and we've got some choices amongst cross-platform. Coincidentally JetBrains Rider is sponsoring my blog this week. Side Note: I've been writing this blog post on and off for a while. NET specific features, not strictly IDEs. Later the OmniSharp OSS project came along and added intellisense to a half-dozen editors with its smart out of process intellisense server but these code editors with. Xamarin Studio came out in 2013 as a standalone IDE for mobile app development, but wasn't a generalized or web development IDE. NET development on a Mac was resigned to Mono and whatever text editor you knew how to exit successfully.
