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Well not having a linux working version ( at least of xamarin.android) is not helping to fight back that sentiment

by yulaow 12y ago

segmondy 12y ago
Do you create windows versions of your applications or win 8 apps? If not, you are being hypocritical.
- a-saleh 12y ago
  Well, first I am creating a little game, and MonoGame (awesomely cross-platform opensource port of XNA) is awesome, and I would love to work in officialy supported Xamarin on linux and not fiddle around with old builds of MonoDevelop. And second, for doing any serious CI/QA-Automation, Linux sucks the least IMHO :) But that might be just the years at RedHat speaking :P
  - CmonDev 12y ago
    Targeting the 1-3% percent of developers willing to work on Linux doesn't make much commercial sense.
    - adamors 12y ago
      You're confusing developers with generic end users/consumers. Yes, Linux has a low market share among the general population, but it's quite popular with people who write code. For a lot of things it's important to have a decent terminal emulator, a Unix file system etc. Windows has none of these out of the box and even things like Cygwin are a pain to use.
xpaulbettsx 12y ago
Xamarin recently hired the maintainer of Mono on Debian to work on getting Linux versions of Xamarin working
mands 12y ago
That is true. I have a Xamarin plan for use with Visual Studio for developing mobile apps in F#. However I'm just keep running into stumbling blocks and general frustration developing in Windows, having switched from 10yrs of Linux purely for VS. With the general improvements in Mono and the open sourcing of F# I'd love to use them all together on Linux and take advantage of the greater OSS developer ecosystem there. Monodevelop/Xamarin Studio is fine for development, more so with the newly-added split-view, and the F# support is pretty much on a par with VS these days, but without Xamarin.Android/iOS support I simply can't move. Maybe I should suck it up and buy a Mac instead.
- sandyarmstrong 12y ago
  > Maybe I should suck it up and buy a Mac instead. That is definitely the more comfortable migration path for users coming from a Linux background.
- WorldWideWayne 12y ago
  If you don't want to give your money to Apple, grab a used Macbook Pro and throw an SSD in it. The latest version of OS X runs on models all the way back to the early 2008 edition and maybe even further.

Well not having a linux working version ( at least of xamarin.android) is not helping to fight back that sentiment

by yulaow 12y ago

Well not having a linux working version ( at least of xamarin.android) is not helping to fight back that sentiment

segmondy 12y ago

Do you create windows versions of your applications or win 8 apps? If not, you are being hypocritical.

a-saleh 12y ago
Well, first I am creating a little game, and MonoGame (awesomely cross-platform opensource port of XNA) is awesome, and I would love to work in officialy supported Xamarin on linux and not fiddle around with old builds of MonoDevelop. And second, for doing any serious CI/QA-Automation, Linux sucks the least IMHO :) But that might be just the years at RedHat speaking :P
- CmonDev 12y ago
  Targeting the 1-3% percent of developers willing to work on Linux doesn't make much commercial sense.
  - adamors 12y ago
    You're confusing developers with generic end users/consumers. Yes, Linux has a low market share among the general population, but it's quite popular with people who write code. For a lot of things it's important to have a decent terminal emulator, a Unix file system etc. Windows has none of these out of the box and even things like Cygwin are a pain to use.

xpaulbettsx 12y ago

Xamarin recently hired the maintainer of Mono on Debian to work on getting Linux versions of Xamarin working

mands 12y ago

That is true. I have a Xamarin plan for use with Visual Studio for developing mobile apps in F#. However I'm just keep running into stumbling blocks and general frustration developing in Windows, having switched from 10yrs of Linux purely for VS. With the general improvements in Mono and the open sourcing of F# I'd love to use them all together on Linux and take advantage of the greater OSS developer ecosystem there. Monodevelop/Xamarin Studio is fine for development, more so with the newly-added split-view, and the F# support is pretty much on a par with VS these days, but without Xamarin.Android/iOS support I simply can't move. Maybe I should suck it up and buy a Mac instead.

sandyarmstrong 12y ago
> Maybe I should suck it up and buy a Mac instead. That is definitely the more comfortable migration path for users coming from a Linux background.
WorldWideWayne 12y ago
If you don't want to give your money to Apple, grab a used Macbook Pro and throw an SSD in it. The latest version of OS X runs on models all the way back to the early 2008 edition and maybe even further.