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Well Microsoft is not using Xamarin for any of their cross platform apps. Why should we?

• maxxxxx 8y ago
  That's actually a weird thing with a lot of MS tech, especially .NET desktop development. They barely used Winforms themselves, WPF got only used in Visual Studio 2010 (and made it slow and buggy for the first releases). They put out stuff for developers but don't use it themselves.
  • ygra 8y ago
    WPF has also been used for PowerShell ISE, Windows Live Writer, ABC a bunch of other things. A problem with adopting Windows forms or WPF internally is probably that no Windows core component or application could depend on .NET or non-system libraries, and a lot of applications are older than .NET and certainly wouldn't be rewritten.
  • zerr 8y ago
    Yes, same goes for MFC.
    • maxxxxx 8y ago
      Very true. Does anyone know how the situation is with Apple? Do they use the libraries they have developers work with?
• ivm 8y ago
  Microsoft News is made with it: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1009433494840336384 https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1009433494840336384