I play some older games that use DX9

Can i install Visual Studio 2019 on that

I know theres a Mac version

https://appdb.winehq.org/

VS2019 might have an entry in the Wine AppDB

then again, you might have issues compiling C# code. I don't know if there are toolchains to compile to PE format that work in Wine

although there probably should be

Unfortunately not

but 2017 is supported

isn't VSCode a fork of Visual Studio?

no no

VSCode isnt an IDE really

its more of a light text editor

that has IDE features tacked in

Whats the latest, I think they were up to .net core 3 on linux

last I checked

.net core 2.26 is the latest that is all supported by the stuff i need

But .net core 3 is stable and out

I've only heard of VSCode. Never used it or explored it much further

my IDE is vim 😎

VSCode is really nice but can't hold a candle to the VS IDE

(or Atom when I'm lazy)

VS Code right, Visual Studio 2019 left

I use VSCode to edit my js stuff

or... vscode middle left lol

Visual Studio 2019 is like... 30 GB and VS code is like 200MB lol

I havnt tried the 2019 one

@FitnessByHeatherHeyer the apostraphail in your name frustrates me to no end. good job!

I still have 2017

I am most used to 2017 but 2019 allows for .net core 3.0 support fully

I like the UI changes they made in 2019. they smashed up the top bar a bit to give more code space

unless you care about checking out the latest latest .net core 3.0 stuff and also get the latest C# 8.0 language features then i wouldnt worry bout upgrading

null coalesce assignement ??= operator is so cool in c#8

that does what

the top is syntax sugar for the bottom

which is basically, youve got a _requestBuilder field thats not initialized

I shouldn't have asked, I haven't done C# in years

lol

and it only initializes it and allocates the memory if or when it gets asked for in the RequestBuilder property

oh so it's a listener of sorts

its like a "if its null, then instantiate it the first time its asked for, and then every time after, itll be instantiated so just return that version you created the first time you asked for it"