I'm Still Mad at Microsoft for Killing Azure Data Studio

I'm a .NET developer who outside of work, seldom uses Windows. My primary machine has been a MacBook Pro for around twenty years. I've lately been slowly migrating to Linux, but that's also not Windows. Now that Microsoft made .NET cross-platform, it's great, I can develop on MacOS, Linux, Windows, whatever I want. It's great for everyone in my opinion. The one thing that hasn't been made cross platform is SQL Server and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

It's not that big of a deal as there's a Docker image I can use for development. What I do need is a way to easily query it. Azure Data Studio fit that bill nicely. It felt like Visual Studio Code and provided a nice UI. I even used it on Windows despite SSMS being available. It was nice, it was its own standalone app, and I liked it.

Microsoft retired it at the end of February.

Yes, Microsoft is keeping it "going" as a Visual Studio Code Extension. But I liked it better as its own app. I liked the UI in its app, I liked that it worked "separately" and I could easily keep it and my other IDEs separate.

It might be small, it might be something stupid, it might be petty, but I don't like it and I'm mad at Microsoft for this. And yes, there's plenty of other reasons to be mad at Microsoft for, but I'm going to add this one to the list and highlight it.