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

• mynameisvlad 11y ago
  Considering Microsoft has no Mac IDE, I'm not sure how Xamarin could be considered a competitor.
  • Sir_Substance 11y ago
    ...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.
    • pjmlp 11y ago
      Have you ever used .NET on its own platform? Mono only supports a subset of the whole stack. No sane .NET developer would use Mono on Windows, its purpose is .NET portability to other OSes.
      • Sir_Substance 11y ago
        Xamarin studio can be run against .net on windows, it's not mono specific.
        • pjmlp 11y ago
          Yes, but what is the value of doing that instead of using Visual Studio?!
          • Sir_Substance 11y ago
            Maybe I like it better? WHY ARE WE ARGUING? explodes