Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

weblogs.asp.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

191–200 of 405 posts

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

#191

Post by carlospaulino »

xenadu02 wrote: post #139
jonsmit wrote: post #38

How much? I know it's undisclosed but it would be very interesting. Hopefully someone leaks it. The rumor was Miguel told MS to "F*#K Off" when MS presented him with an offer many years ago. This lead to CoreCLR being open sourced and Visual Studio Code being built. I'd like to know if by undermining parts of Xamarins business they were able to get them at substantial discount - especially with the tech industry down…

Open sourcing the compiler, CoreCLR, and JIT made Xamarin's life easier, not harder. Acquiring Xamarin is just acknowledging that Windows Phone is DOA and their best shot at monetizing the mobile world is providing backend hosting/services and developer tools. That's not a secret - that's their publicly announced strategy. I'd expect all the Xamarin tools to be built-in to VS going forward. One VS/MSDN subscription g…

Exactly what I was thinking. They are probably going to go with a business model similar to Amazon's Lumberyard

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

#192

Post by captainmuon »

Huh, didn't that happen a few months ago? Or what am I confusing this with?

I thought this was announced end of last year already, with Xamarin moving there products to Roslyn and Microsoft offering Xamarin's products for non-Windows platforms... or did my mind just make that up?

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

#193

Post by moonchrome »

.NET now needs a solid compile-to-browser story - which is presumably coming with some future version of web assembly (initial version doesn't support GC or threads)

I'm looking forward to the day where I can ditch C++ for portability - .NET really is an ideal replacement for most apps - you can write apps that don't stress the GC by using value types and can control memory layouts relatively well (unlike Java) and at the same time you can use reflection, GC and all the niceties of modern programming platforms - unlike C++.

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

#195

Post by [deleted] »

robwilliams wrote: post #130
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.

[deleted]

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

#196

Post by maxxxxx »

hh2222 wrote: post #185
shanselman wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nonsense. The last 5 years show it's a whole new Microsoft. Disclaimer: I have been one of the ones pushing the last 5 years to make that statement true. ;)

It worries me more that Microsoft has a track record of abandoning developer tools for the next shiny thing.

Same here. I wouldn't be surprised if Xamarin died slowly.

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

#197

Post by Sir_Substance »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #158
Sir_Substance wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not debating that Xamarins products are useful to Microsoft, I'm questioning the assertion that they haven't just consumed a competitor.

Considering Microsoft has no Mac IDE, I'm not sure how Xamarin could be considered a competitor.

...because Visual Studio is a C#/C++ IDE that works on Windows, and Xamarin Studio is also a C#/C++ IDE that works on Windows?

Xamarin Studio is a swiss army knife. I don't know about your use case, but I use it under the name Monodevelop on linux (not really sure what that association is) and as Xamarin studio on windows. For my use case, it's a C# and C++ IDE for desktop development, same as visual studio.

It's certainly not a MacOS only product, it supports all three platforms including windows.

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

#198

Post by qntmfred »

hh2222 wrote: post #185
shanselman wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nonsense. The last 5 years show it's a whole new Microsoft. Disclaimer: I have been one of the ones pushing the last 5 years to make that statement true. ;)

It worries me more that Microsoft has a track record of abandoning developer tools for the next shiny thing.

seems to me, the next shiny thing is what HN is all about

Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin

#199

Post by qntmfred »

moonchrome wrote: post #193

.NET now needs a solid compile-to-browser story - which is presumably coming with some future version of web assembly (initial version doesn't support GC or threads) I'm looking forward to the day where I can ditch C++ for portability - .NET really is an ideal replacement for most apps - you can write apps that don't stress the GC by using value types and can control memory layouts relatively well (unlike Java) and a…

silverlight ^_^
Post reply on HN