Is macOs good for .NET 6 development?
I'm new to .NET and only have a MacBook. I'm wondering if macOS is suitable for developing C# .NET 6 backend services locally. Coming from PHP and mostly working with Docker containers, are there any limitations I should be aware of on a mac? I will use visual studio code for the start as my editor.
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You can just use Docker as well
Development on Mac is fine, everything works
Just get Rider for an IDE, since VS for Mac is dead and VS Code is meh
Also, .NET 8 is the latest LTS
Thank you. 🙂 okay I will get Rider.
Is macOS in any way frowned upon for C# development since C# is a language developed by Microsoft?
Not at all
The only downside is that there is no good free IDE for mac, so you/your company will need to shell out for a Rider license, other then that I'd say its most excellent
you also obviously can't do winforms or WPF desktop development (since both of those rely on windows specifics), but Avalonia works just fine
Thanks