I stopped paying much attention to .NET because I switched to JS a while back, but I seriously thought this had already happened years ago.
Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
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Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
#42This 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.
Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
#43Xamarin 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.
Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
#44I 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.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Visual Studio Code is an entirely different animal, built with JavaScript on top of node.js (like Atom). MonoDevelop is a clone of Visual Studio written in C# which isn't even remotely compatible with the mis-named Visual Studio Code. If they want to port MonoDevelop to Visual Studio Code, they would have to re-write all the features from scratch. At this point they might as well re-write Visual Studio to node.js and…
Despite that, Visual Studio Code is pretty awesome though.
I agree, but I wish they had chosen another platform to build it on.
Maybe when we finally have a universal bytecode for the web and ECMAScript 6 then developing on it will be less painful. Let us hope.
Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
#46What's with the MS shills and apologists in every MS post on HN?
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#473 years ago this would be a sad news for Xamarin, today with the new Microsoft I'm glad to see this. Microsoft will not destroy Xamarin (I hope)
Microsoft is only a threat to JetBrains from where I'm standing and looking, I have a feeling they will fix up Xamarin the way we all hope they will. I really hope there will be a completely free option of Xamarin for Students and maybe even on BizSpark.
There is already a free option of Xamarin for students.[1] Earlier there used to be a separate application process but now it is rolled into DreamSpark
Re: Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
#48This 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.
Eh Visual studio code is not an IDE. Last time I used it the C# support was pretty bad.
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#49A friend of mine became extremely good at build systems and hacking them by making Xamarin's stuff build. They put so many tricky roadblocks in to prevent easy builds.
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#50For once, I see an acquisition that might actually work! There must have been a blue moon.
Satya Nadella is a breath of fresh air. I don't say that very often about top-level management (not that my opinion is all that important), I suspect if I was employed by Microsoft I'd feel proud of working there.