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You don't need to use an IDE in order to write Xamarin.iOS or Android apps. You can just use a text editor (although Xamarin Studio is free). The MSBuild logic, at least for Xamari…

It's also because Apple would be considered a distributor of the final application, thus according to the rules of the GPL, they'd be forced to provide the source code for any app …

The open source version remains on their GitHub page here: https://github.com/robovm/robovm

Wow, way to attack a straw man there.

Then why did you say you couldn't if "yea, no shit" you knew you could? If you've already grabbed ENVELOPE info for all of the older messages (i.e. all of the messages from a previ…

I think plenty of people have time to implement a good IMAP client, just not me because I have a job that is completely unrelated to writing mail clients.

> I can show you, right now, a 500,000 message view across multiple folders infinite scrolling with JMAP and I can jump to the middle of that view and load a screenful of messages.…

It'll take me longer than a month to implement my own IMAP client to do things efficiently. As it just so happens, the company I work for is having a "work on anything you want as …

> * designed a lot more around server side sort/search, because UID ordering sucks in various ways - try moving some messages into your INBOX and noticing that iOS mail displays th…

An HTTP-based IMAP replacement makes me want to put a bullet in my brain. IMAP is actually really good for the most part. It just has a few legacy warts (like EXPUNGE notifications…

Agreed. I had to go back and re-read that sentence when I was reading the article. I was sure I must have misread it. Bush is about as suave as heavy grit sandpaper.

It wasn't the journalist that described Bush was suave, it was the woman being interviewed.

What happened to hiring people based on merit?

Our IDE is free for anyone to use, whether you are using our iOS, Android or Mac products or not. It's also open source (except for the addins that work with our iOS, Android and M…

Everyone on the Xamarin Studio team uses Xamarin Studio to develop Xamarin Studio. Smart Indent, afaik, has been fixed. The problem you describe was only an issue for multi-line la…

The more comparable license from Xamarin would be the $999 license, which works out to be $999 / 12 = $83.25

$149 per month, yikes! And people say that Xamarin is expensive.

Stop & Shop have an Android app (and an iOS app?) so you can use your phone as a scanner. The idea of putting your most common food items that require a code in a toplevel "menu" w…

The Mono project leaves it up to the packagers for each specific Linux distro do the packaging (just like nearly 100% of all other open source projects) because they are more knowl…