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Doesn't Xamarin have a load of other stuff around testing and the like? It could just mean a move away from Xamarin as a core development tool into producing t
by Tyrannosaurs 12y ago
Doesn't Xamarin have a load of other stuff around testing and the like?
It could just mean a move away from Xamarin as a core development tool into producing things which support development on these platforms.
- moonchrome 12y agoI highly doubt Microsoft will release and support Linux/OSX/iOS/Android API bindings. What will likely happen is Microsoft will : * open source the core libs * open source the JIT * make sure it works on all platforms * open source the ASP.NET and port it to Linux/Mac so they can separate Azure from being a Windows only cloud service Xamarin then packages these in to Mono and Xamarin.iOS/Android providing a layer on top of MS core stuff. Microsoft will then be able to sell .NET as a truly cross-platform solution and make VS/Azure more popular where it's probably losing to other OSS ATM.
- Tyrannosaurs 12y agoI agree re Linux and OSX but I could see iOS and Android. The scale of mobile is such that if you want to be relevant in the way MS have historically, they're two platforms you can't ignore.