<story><title>Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024</title><url>https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rco8786</author><text>&amp;gt; the text editor&lt;p&gt;This is...not a super accurate way to describe VSCode</text></item><item><author>gberger</author><text>Not to be confused with Visual Studio Code, the text editor, which will remain supported.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swatcoder</author><text>It’s in the same feature family as emacs, Sublime, Notepad++, etc — all of which are called text editors.&lt;p&gt;They all have extension architectures that expand on what that means, but they all cover the same kind of use cases and they all stop short of traditional Integrated Development Environments.&lt;p&gt;Unless you’re saying that none of the others should be called text editors either (a daunting uphill fight against history), it’s an exactly accurate description.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft is retiring Visual Studio for Mac in 2024</title><url>https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rco8786</author><text>&amp;gt; the text editor&lt;p&gt;This is...not a super accurate way to describe VSCode</text></item><item><author>gberger</author><text>Not to be confused with Visual Studio Code, the text editor, which will remain supported.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>belfthrow</author><text>From the crappy bolt on things required to make it anywhere close to a decent IDE, it is essentially vim with tons of incompatible plugins that continually conflict one and other.</text></comment>