

I rarely use my mac, but I did put VS for Mac. VS for Mac is nothing like VS for windows, however, I have found it's a lot more stable than monodevelop. Visual Studio for Mac (although I will call it Xamarin Studio for a while ) ) does provide you with a lot more features, but for me there are a few that make the difference. Microsoft has done a great job of creating a powerful and flexible cross-platform editor that's piquing a lot of interest from developers. It was only released last year (April 2015), but it has already been picking up a lot of traction. Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a relative newcomer to the world of text editors.

At the time of writing, VS for Mac doesn’t have built in support for the templating engine, but (as with Visual Studio for Windows), there is nothing stopping you form creating a new project with the templating engine outside of VS for Mac (i.e using the terminal and the dotnet new3 command) and opening the csproj with VS for MAC.
