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I was honestly surprised to see Microsofts name on there as a contributor
by bilal4hmed 6y ago
I was honestly surprised to see Microsofts name on there as a contributor
- tasogare 6y agoClassical MS move: spending more efforts on competing technologies than on their own (in this case dotnet).
- mikece 6y agoEven Microsoft realize that Xamarin is not a tool for serious mobile or desktop development. Sure, you can get apps that work but they are 2.5x larger than if you had written them in Java or Kotlin and offer no more features than if you had done a hybrid mobile app with Ionic instead. Everyone thought Microsoft acquired Xamarin for the mobile dev tooling? No: it was the only way they could get the brain trust and the core Mono team at Xamarin to come work for them.
- lostmsu 6y agoThat would not be a problem, if you could publish a shared runtime in Google Play. Phones are still really bad platform.
- bithavoc 6y agoI'm surprised too, they now have: - MFC - WinForms - Windows Presentation Foundation - Xamarin & Xamarin Forms - Universal Windows Apps - WinUI 2 & 3 - React Native fork for Windows (based on WinUI 2 migrating to WinUI 3) - React Native fork for Mac (based on AppKit) And now they also contribute to Flutter, wow.
- bliteben 6y agoYou forgot blaze and prob uncountable other projects