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Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

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Re: Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

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Post by kentosi »

treehau5 wrote: post #6
_cmmn wrote: post #2

Nice. Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.

No thanks. I like Java, and esp Java 8 just fine.

Or have both. What's in Java 8 that isn't in C#?

And last I checked you couldn't use Java 8 fully on Android (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Re: Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

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Post by johncolanduoni »

kentosi wrote: post #11
treehau5 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No thanks. I like Java, and esp Java 8 just fine.

Or have both. What's in Java 8 that isn't in C#? And last I checked you couldn't use Java 8 fully on Android (please correct me if I'm wrong).

You are painfully correct...

Re: Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

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Post by jdmichal »

treehau5 wrote: post #6
_cmmn wrote: post #2

Nice. Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.

No thanks. I like Java, and esp Java 8 just fine.

In my experience, C# can be coded almost exactly like Java 8; just ignore the extra features C# has. (I don't know why you would, but it's certainly possible.) Do you have more specific complaints?

Re: Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

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Post by praveenster »

_cmmn wrote: post #2

Nice. Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.

In addition to that it might be a good idea to make Swift a first-class citizen too. This would give developers a good chance to use similar concepts on both iOS and Android.

Re: Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

#16

Post by Longhanks »

Grazester wrote: post #5
_cmmn wrote: post #2

Nice. Now please make C# a first-class citizen in Android and start to migrate from Java to C#.

What exactly would be the benefit of this?

No more problems with Oracle, C# features that Java is missing, such as type inference, proper generics, built in concurrency, operator overloading, first class optionals, ...

Re: Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

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Post by Grazester »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #10
Grazester wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Windows Phone had UWP no? Where developers were concerned it didn't offer them anything compelling enough for that platform it seems. I think it would be even less so on Tizen even.

Tizen has other traits that might be more appealing, like the fact that it's open source. (And arguably, more open source than Android by far.) And if Samsung chose to start pushing Tizen phones over Android phones... bear in mind, Samsung is pretty much THE Android manufacturer, everyone else rides their coattails. Samsung is maybe the only company that can upset the apple cart as far as Google's concerned.

Without the Google Play Store Samsung's phones without Android are not going to sell.

Re: Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

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Post by daxfohl »

kentosi wrote: post #11
treehau5 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No thanks. I like Java, and esp Java 8 just fine.

Or have both. What's in Java 8 that isn't in C#? And last I checked you couldn't use Java 8 fully on Android (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Anonymous classes are the big thing I miss. (Yes C# has a feature called "anonymous classes" as well, but it's completely different).

Re: Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET support to Tizen

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Post by dogma1138 »

Grazester wrote: post #17
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tizen has other traits that might be more appealing, like the fact that it's open source. (And arguably, more open source than Android by far.) And if Samsung chose to start pushing Tizen phones over Android phones... bear in mind, Samsung is pretty much THE Android manufacturer, everyone else rides their coattails. Samsung is maybe the only company that can upset the apple cart as far as Google's concerned.

Without the Google Play Store Samsung's phones without Android are not going to sell.

In the west maybe not tho the Samsung store has tons of stuff.

FYI many if not most android phones are sold without the google store today in emerging markets if you buy a <50$ in Africa you are not getting Google's App Store.

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