Xamarin Open-Sourced

#1

Post by fekberg » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 1:30 PM UTC

Re: Xamarin Open-Sourced

#2

Post by seibelj » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 2:42 PM UTC

This is amazing! But question - where is RoboVM? Please release to MIT license so it doesn't waste all of the work done so far.

Re: Xamarin Open-Sourced

#3

Post by ZenoArrow » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 2:48 PM UTC

seibelj wrote: post #2

This is amazing! But question - where is RoboVM? Please release to MIT license so it doesn't waste all of the work done so far.

IIRC, RoboVM is being dropped. No further development work. I could be wrong though, I'm half remembering it being discussed on a Reddit AMA with Miguel de Icaza.

EDIT: It wasn't in the AMA after all, but it has been dropped:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/death-robovm

Re: Xamarin Open-Sourced

#4

Post by seibelj » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 2:52 PM UTC

ZenoArrow wrote: post #3

seibelj wrote: post #2

This is amazing! But question - where is RoboVM? Please release to MIT license so it doesn't waste all of the work done so far.

IIRC, RoboVM is being dropped. No further development work. I could be wrong though, I'm half remembering it being discussed on a Reddit AMA with Miguel de Icaza. EDIT: It wasn't in the AMA after all, but it has been dropped: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/death-robovm

Perfect, so open source it so the community can continue, it's still #1 for the moment and libGDX might be better served by it than intel

Re: Xamarin Open-Sourced

#5

Post by ianleeclark » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 2:56 PM UTC

Nice, I've recently been honing my C# chops, so I'm super excited to see this arrive at such an incredible (for me) time.

Re: Xamarin Open-Sourced

#6

Post by sremani » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 2:57 PM UTC

seibelj wrote: post #2

This is amazing! But question - where is RoboVM? Please release to MIT license so it doesn't waste all of the work done so far.

If Xamarin is open sourced and RoboVM is dropped, I can only speculate that Microsoft did not want to touch JVM with a 10-foot pole and chose to not entertain Oracle legal. May be I am wrong, but that is one possibility.

Re: Xamarin Open-Sourced

#7

Post by ZenoArrow » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 2:58 PM UTC

seibelj wrote: post #4

ZenoArrow wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC, RoboVM is being dropped. No further development work. I could be wrong though, I'm half remembering it being discussed on a Reddit AMA with Miguel de Icaza. EDIT: It wasn't in the AMA after all, but it has been dropped: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/death-robovm

Perfect, so open source it so the community can continue, it's still #1 for the moment and libGDX might be better served by it than intel

Why would Microsoft open source a direct competitor to the Xamarin .NET platform?

The best option you're likely to get is to build on top of the older open-source RoboVM release:

https://github.com/robovm/robovm

Re: Xamarin Open-Sourced

#8

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 2:59 PM UTC

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Re: Xamarin Open-Sourced

#9

Post by Scramblejams » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 3:13 PM UTC

So, what does this mean for Unity3D? I'm tired of being limited to .Net(-sorta-ish) 3.5 and a stuttering garbage collector.

Re: Xamarin Open-Sourced

#10

Post by ghuntley » Wed, Apr 27, 2016, 3:17 PM UTC

It has been super exciting watching this all unfold over the last year, for those wondering where to get started in the new world of .NET open source - start here:

.NET CLR Managed Runtime - https://gitter.im/dotnet/coreclr

.NET Framework - https://gitter.im/dotnet/corefx

.NET Compiler as a Service ("Roslyn") - https://gitter.im/dotnet/roslyn

.NET Orleans Actor Framework - https://gitter.im/dotnet/orleans

Mono Framework - https://gitter.im/mono/mono

Xamarin iOS, Watch, Mac Bindings and Framework - https://gitter.im/xamarin/xamarin-macios

Xamarin Android Bindings and Framework - https://gitter.im/xamarin/xamarin-android

Everything is licensed under the MIT license w/patent pledges.