Your C# App on 66 Million Macs: Announcing Xamarin.Mac

Post by wired8 » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 2:03 AM UTC

shadowmint wrote: post #116

cdmckay wrote: post #115

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I don't think they're trying to funnel users to MonoDevelop, I think they're using it because the iOS SDK is for Mac. Take a look at Mono for Android, for example. It uses a VS plugin instead of MonoDevelop.

I might be in the minority here, but I use MonoDevelop in preference to visual studio. It's got a couple of irritating issues (the plugin support is rubbish even now, and it's ridiculously complicated to roll your own), but its just so fast . My morning at work is: git pull, go get coffee while VS spazzes out for 5 minutes and resharper reindexes everything.

Post by brajkovic » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 3:06 AM UTC

icefox wrote: post #120

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The app store does not allow GPL'd apps.

And what about on the android and windows app stores?

Post by pretoriusB » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 3:36 AM UTC

pron wrote: post #60

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It's the quality of the experience, GUI, not just the resource-hoging of Java Desktop app. And even for that "It runs for day's on end without being a significant burden to the rest of the system" is hardly something to write home about.

I don't know. I spend most of my time working with NetBeans on a mac, and it's just as pretty as Keynote, while more responsive and stable. So, yeah, NetBeans, a huge Java Swing application, provides a better experience on a mac than Keynote.

Post by eropple » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 4:14 AM UTC

shadowmint wrote: post #116

cdmckay wrote: post #115

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I don't think they're trying to funnel users to MonoDevelop, I think they're using it because the iOS SDK is for Mac. Take a look at Mono for Android, for example. It uses a VS plugin instead of MonoDevelop.

I might be in the minority here, but I use MonoDevelop in preference to visual studio. It's got a couple of irritating issues (the plugin support is rubbish even now, and it's ridiculously complicated to roll your own), but its just so fast . My morning at work is: git pull, go get coffee while VS spazzes out for 5 minutes and resharper reindexes everything.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Dec 13, 2012, 4:30 AM UTC

rymith wrote: post #118

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Yes for $99 for individual developer. PLEASE.

Absolutely, as we see from the numbers, most iPhone apps aren't making a lot of money, so $400 + $100 for the app store access is simply dumb for an indie dev. Miguel is a very smart man and completely clueless at the same time.