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As someone who spent a lot of time in the .NET world, can someone with more experience using Mono/Xamarin tell me what the main goal is with using this rather t
by lucisferre 12y ago
As someone who spent a lot of time in the .NET world, can someone with more experience using Mono/Xamarin tell me what the main goal is with using this rather than switching to a more *nix centric ecosystem? Is it mainly popular with those who want to develop cross-platform desktop apps?
From what I can tell it isn't that great for the end user either. I recall once trying to install a mono based tool on OSX. It was... unpleasant and I ended up simply choosing not to use it.
- ZanyProgrammer 12y agoWell, its more of a write once, publish everywhere solution from what I understand-it allows .Net devs to develop in C# for Android/iOS. I recently tried downloading MonoDevelop on OSX, and poked at an ASP.NET MVC 3 web app. Straight out of the box I couldn't run it without an error popping up I couldn't get rid of, so I ditched it.
- pjmlp 12y ago> Well, its more of a write once, publish everywhere solution from what I understand-it allows .Net devs to develop in C# for Android/iOS. Except they don't offer a multi-platform UI toolkit. Xamarin.Forms is quite recent and the amount of bugs shows it still has lot to improve.