She felt that if she continued working primarily with Visual Studio on Windows, she'd never really learn it because Visual Studio was way too helpful. In a conversation with Entity Framework expert Julie Lerman, I learned that she really wanted to increase her proficiency in cross-platform. It turns out that I wasn't the only person wondering how to fit the cross-platform cloud into their career. I thought about the future of my career and realized that the next 10 years look distinctly less Windows-y and a whole lot more cloud-y. My Microsoft-centric Windows-only world is getting a whole lot more cross-platform. Docker and containers are now a pretty popular paradigm and SQL Server runs on Linux. Silverlight, a framework for rich Internet apps and Windows Phone, came and went and JavaScript is no longer a curse word. Several years went by with me being super annoyed about the lack of a Windows iMessage client. But that's on Windows and, well, there's no iMessage client on Windows.
I've been writing ASP.NET Web applications with Visual Studio since the early betas of the. NET applications or working with Azure DevOps (formerly Team Foundation Server).
The difficulty was that I'd spent my life in Windows either writing. Almost everyone I regularly talk to was or is on iMessage. You're probably thinking that I went to Visual Studio for Mac because I wanted to write software for iOS. My path to Visual Studio for Mac almost happened by accident.
