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Is your concern developing on Linux or targeting Linux? I think Xamarin claims to have both cases are covered, though not nearly as well as other platforms. A
by j_s 10y ago
Is your concern developing on Linux or targeting Linux?
I think Xamarin claims to have both cases are covered, though not nearly as well as other platforms.
Any additional detail you can add to your anecdote would be appreciated!
- mixedCase 10y agoDevelopment on Linux. Xamarin dev on Linux is limited to MonoDevelop, instead of Xamarin Studio which is the one where you actually get some tooling for the purpose; and I'm not sure it's even possible to get anything of value done with Xamarin using Linux alone. Xamarin thought it was a great idea to fork MonoDevelop but completely drop support for a platform the application was already running on. Something that would blow my mind if I didn't know better the people involved with Xamarin at the start. Rather, a specific person. No points for guessing correctly who it is. With that said, there are a lot of alternatives for Xamarin. Last year I tested a bunch of mobile frameworks on low-end devices and it really doesn't compete with native, and in fact lost to Kivy in runtime speed, a Cython-based, community-run framework. Worth mentioning that it was about on par with React Native.