There might be some difficulty for VS for Mac extension developers, as they lose a good reference on how VS for Mac works internally, but there are alternative ways.
(Recently JetBrains decided to switch from vstest to its brand new testing infrastructure though.) ConclusionĪ company like Microsoft might not be able to continue its investment when the revenue does not meet the expectation. For example, JetBrains Rider reused vstest code base to implement MSTest support, which was never part of Rider before. This often requires a lengthy internal process with legal guys, and lots of efforts to clean up the code.Īnother factor to consider is that competitors in the same field might make use of the newly released code to compete with Visual Studio.
Most importantly, to keep MonoDevelop open sourced, Microsoft had to release certain code base from VS for Windows (such as vstest, and part of the code editor) under an open source license. However, to keep MonoDevelop as a full feature IDE for different operating systems (Windows, macOS, and Linux), the developers must spend time fixing Windows/Linux related issues, which most of the times does not contribute much to the revenue. So Microsoft can still earn something back from macOS users. While no clear revenue comes from Linux user base, MonoDevelop has been the foundation of VS for Mac. The Investment on MonoDevelop from Microsoft The repository was polluted by Microsoft private NuGet feeds and private code repositories (though some repos became open sourced later on).Many issues to compile the latest code base on Linux.No more binary package of MonoDevelop for various Linux distributions.Therefore, there is no obvious ROI for Microsoft to keep investing in MonoDevelop for Linux, and we saw more and more issues in the past few years, But one fact we must consider is that Linux desktop market share is rather small (<1% by certain stats), so VS for Linux has been requested but never fulfilled. And recently via VSCode and VS for Mac, Microsoft has been able to reach developer communities on macOS and Linux. Most Microsoft developers are on Windows without a doubt. I will explain below why I don’t think the sudden change is sudden, and provide my personal opinions. However, there is no official announcement from any Microsoft channel on why that happened.Īs a long time Mono observer, I wrote two blog posts in the past regarding MonoDevelop’s status, Microsoft abandoned MonoDevelop GitHub repository earlier this year, and we can see no commit was pushed since February.
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