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MS kills Xbox 360/PC cross-platform development
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Re: MS kills Xbox 360/PC cross-platform development
#42When you work with the Microsoft stack, except for a few core technologies, you have no idea if the "hot" API or current solution Redmond is pushing will be supported or abandoned in a couple of years. Combine that with stapling Metro, a tablet/phone API to the side of the desktop in Windows 8, many developers I know are tired of being thrashed and burned. As a developer/analyst/admin that works primary in the MS app…
What are your alternatives? OSX, where Apple has no qualms about abandoning technology, hardware or software, within a matter of years (the iPad 1 was EOL'ed just shy of two years old, I believe). XCode and (Snow) Leopard? No such luck. Now, you do mention the Linux alternatives, which seem to be the most stable... if you can get around any infighting of QT... Gnome/KDE... etc et al. But it doesn't seem particularly…
I think Apple's foundational technologies have been fantastically stable since OS X came along. It's been pretty much the same solid core since 2001, from OS X 10.1 through iOS 6.
The only major piece to go away was Carbon, which was pretty much just for OS 9 backwards compatibility to begin with.
I use many of the same classes and techniques in iOS today that I did in the very beginning of learning OS X programming.
Re: MS kills Xbox 360/PC cross-platform development
#43When you work with the Microsoft stack, except for a few core technologies, you have no idea if the "hot" API or current solution Redmond is pushing will be supported or abandoned in a couple of years. Combine that with stapling Metro, a tablet/phone API to the side of the desktop in Windows 8, many developers I know are tired of being thrashed and burned. As a developer/analyst/admin that works primary in the MS app…
What are your alternatives? OSX, where Apple has no qualms about abandoning technology, hardware or software, within a matter of years (the iPad 1 was EOL'ed just shy of two years old, I believe). XCode and (Snow) Leopard? No such luck. Now, you do mention the Linux alternatives, which seem to be the most stable... if you can get around any infighting of QT... Gnome/KDE... etc et al. But it doesn't seem particularly…
> What are your alternatives?
Option 1. Use a third-party abstraction library to make the same code work on every platform. Unity [1] is a popular commercial solution. FOSS solutions include jMonkeyEngine [2] (oriented toward PC games) and libgdx (with a focus on mobile) [3].
Option 2. Instead of writing for Windows, write for Wine. If your program runs in Wine, it should run in Windows (the reverse, alas, is not necessarily true). And you also get support for any platform Wine runs on, including not just Linux, but apparently Intel Mac [4].
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(game_engine)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JMonkeyEngine
Re: MS kills Xbox 360/PC cross-platform development
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple obsoletes older technology, but it doesn't introduce dozens of redundant technologies only to drop them. There's a difference between keeping up with a linear path of progress and jumping from API to API without any clue as to which one is the "right" one.
For example?
What are you wanting an example of?