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Have you considered Visual Studio for Mac? That would be a more obvious choice than VS Code, surely?

I do full stack development and Vue, React, JS/TS is so good in VS Code, that I can live with the quirks of OmniSharp. I love how fast an light it feels (compared to VS).

I have not personally used VS Mac, but from what I've seen of it (other devs that used it), it looks like a downgrade. But devs using VS Mac all switched to Rider a few months back and never looked back.

Yes, Rider is my personal favourite. I go for the full IDE experience so VS Code falls short.

Visual Studio for Mac is evolving fast. Today it's much better than it was a few months ago. Now it is a good option for backend development.

I still have problems getting VsVim to install after recent VS Mac updates. Any IDE without a Vim plugin is a no-op for me.

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