It’s doing so by leveraging the work of Xamarin, the cross-platform development company it acquired earlier this year, and the open source MonoDevelop IDE that also forms the basis of the Xamarin Studio IDE.Īfter the acquisition closed, I sat down with Xamarin co-founder Nat Friedman and Microsoft’s corporate vice president Julia Liuson to talk about the future of Xamarin’s tools under Microsoft.
Still, let that sink in for a moment: Microsoft is bringing its flagship developer tool to macOS. Given that Microsoft already mistakenly published this announcement earlier this week, the fact that the company is launching Visual Studio for Mac doesn’t come as a major surprise now that it has made this official.
