what does this mean for monodevelop .. i hope they maintain the linux version
Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
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Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
#12Hopefully MS keeps expanding the Xamarin platform instead of mothballing it.
Hopefully they will make it available through dreamspark and bizspark
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#14I thought this was a forgone conclusion but I guess it never actually happened yet. Congrats to the team!
Wouldn't it be cool if they gave this same treatment to ReactOS down the road? I think Microsoft has woken up to the power of open source technologies.
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#15This is awesome, fantastic news. Congrats to the Xamarin team, they are awesome people.
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#16This 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.
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#17what does this mean for monodevelop .. i hope they maintain the linux version
I wonder if it means a transition to Visual Studio Code at some point. I doubt it would happen soon, but I feel like there's a lot more support behind that IDE than MonoDevelop.
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#18With this, I am hoping MS will put a lot more of effort into NativeScript.
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#19Hopefully MS keeps expanding the Xamarin platform instead of mothballing it.
There's not enough overlap for MS to want to buy Xamarin to shut it down. This is them putting their money where their mouth is vis-a-vie .NET expansion plans.
Hopefully they'll keep Monodevelop under development, if they don't bring VS to Linux.
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#20Hopefully MS keeps expanding the Xamarin platform instead of mothballing it.
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