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Despite its strategic intent, Visual Studio for Mac Community faced three insurmountable problems.

The Rise and Fall of Visual Studio for Mac Community: A Case Study in Cross-Platform Strategy visual studio for mac community

From a product strategy perspective, the Community Edition of Visual Studio for Mac was a Trojan horse for .NET adoption. Before the modern unification of .NET 5/6/7 (later .NET 8), the world was split between .NET Framework (Windows) and .NET Core (cross-platform). To attract Mac-using developers to server-side C#, Microsoft needed a viable editor. Despite its strategic intent, Visual Studio for Mac