What's Happening to Visual Studio for Mac?

Seems like JetBrains Rider will take everyone onboard if VSC won't catch up fast https://tomaszs2.medium.com/microsofts-phasing-out-visual-st...

A real shame. To me, VS for Mac seemed to be converging on the level of product functionality/quality I associate with VS on Windows, only for me to find that its going away...

Seems like VS Code + C# Dev Kit is going to be the future [1]. I've been using VS/Mac for some MAUI and Xamarin development and, while I can probably continue to work on Maui in VS Code with C# Dev Kit and another extension, there doesn't appear to be a way forward for Xamarin.

And for some reason I find VS Code, with all its extensions, about as friendly as Eclipse (which is to say, not much). I much prefer the kind of integrated, native experience that Visual Studio provides (and without the Electron bloat).

[1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-fo...

This news is really disappointing to me because as a C# dev I am losing a quality native editor. Guess I’m either fully moving to vim or begrudgingly dealing with VSCode.