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Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

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Post by UK-AL »

nelp wrote: post #99

The Windows Phone guys must just be hating this news. #WindowsPhone is Dead.

Not really. People will develop on this platform in order to share code between iOS and android.

However it also makes it easy to add windows phone.

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

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Post by hokkos »

big_paps wrote: post #87

This probably also means Unity3d will soon be able to use an updated version of Mono, because Microsoft wants to back them and doesn't force them to pay the full licence price.

Seriously unity could already do it without the old mono runtime with what MS offer : the Roslyn compiler for C# and the LLILC a MSIL bitcode to LLVM compiler for iOS, and the netCore runtime for android. Their C# to c++ compiler seem now a misguided way.

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

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Post by UK-AL »

wvenable wrote: post #44
miguelrochefort wrote: post #25

I wonder what that means for Xamarin.Forms.

Given the existence of the .Net core, I think Microsoft has little plans to look backwards. I wouldn't hold out much hope for Xamarin.Forms.

Whats .net core got to do with xamarin.forms

Xamarin.forms has nothing to do with winforms.

It's a cross platform mobile UI library.

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

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Post by giancarlostoro »

ealexhudson wrote: post #42
JBReefer wrote: post #16

This is giant news for the .NET ecosystem. It means that MS is serious about their push into Mobile and Linux, and that .NET developers aren't going to have to work with Xamarin's ever-so-slightly-behind libraries anymore. It also means that MS now produces an IDE on Linux, which is a crazy change from 10 years ago.

MS already have one; Visual Studio Code. The crazy has been coming a while.

It's a text editor though and doesn't focus on being a full featured IDE. I think a Cross Platform text editor is definitely a must have regardless though. I just wish it had debugging (or at least just execution) natively without me having to find a plugin, sort of how Geany runs / compiles anything I throw at it without much (if ever) effort.

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

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Post by dohboy »

chx wrote: post #43

Xamarin bought by Microsoft two days after Skype for Linux can't join calls by new clients. Oh yeah. The future is bright. Just not for the Linux desktop pieces of Mono.

Indeed. When you get out of your small "coder" box and into the enterprise layer where the negotiations and implementations are happening you will know nothing has changed in the way Microsoft is doing business. Their TAM and KAM layer is exactly the same as the use to be. They are just moving the layers for vendor lock-in now.

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

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Post by robwilliams »

insulanian wrote: post #128

What this means for MonoDevelop? Will it stagnate and die, or florish with fresh water from Microsoft's wells? What will be THE tool to develop for/on Linux?

Considering Microsoft is pushing to support devs on Linux and that the probability of Visual Studio being ported from Windows is near 0, I don't think Microsoft would kill off MonoDevelop.
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