Initially, they weren’t far off the mark. In 2017 Microsoft released Visual Studio for Mac, although many users wondered whether it would turn out to be a reskinned version of Xamarin Studio Xamarin had been acquired by Microsoft just one year earlier. There are plenty of code editing options out there for developers who use Apple products - Xcode Mac being one notable example - but, up until a few years ago, Visual Studio wasn’t one of them.
