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by migueldeicaza 13y ago
Unity and XNA are very different. XNA is a very basic library to roll your own game engine. Unity is a game engine that handles scenes, game objects, physics, animations, complex 3d animations and very sophisticated graphics effects all ble
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by migueldeicaza 13y ago
Wrong. Xamarin Studio and MonoDevelop are the exact same code base. The only difference is that Xamarin Studio contains the iOS and Android plugins, plus adds a Xamarin Branding (branding is completely pluggable in MonoDevelop)
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by migueldeicaza 13y ago
Just tried it on my iPhone, and it crashed.
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Mono is as "100% supportable" as any other open source stack, including Node.
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Except, .NET sorting is implemenented in C# itself, not with native code.
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Do you mind emailing me a list of questions, to make sure I address all of them? My blogging has gone down, due to twitter mostly, but this is a good chance to talk about our open source work. Cheers! Miguel
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
We are actively working on F# support for our products. We have built on the great work that the F# community has done and will be shipping it in future versions of the product. We are looking at a beat of our F# support for March.
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
C# is compiler to IL. The IL linker operates over the IL code (typically C# produced, but we are working now on adding also F#) and produces the minimal set needed to run. Then we compile the resulting linked IL to ARM code, and then we run
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
In my experience, all the code is written in C#. The only time when folks use Objective-C is when they are bringing some existing library they found on GitHub to their project. And even in those cases, they dont actually write Objective
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
We wrote the equivalent of a linker, which only brings the pieces that you actually reference. http://docs.xamarin.com/guides/ios/advanced_topics/linker
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
While we make our cross platform libraries like Xamarin.Mobile run on all platforms, including Windows, we do not actually provide an IDE for Windows Phone apps. Microsoft already provides a complete and capable product for that space.
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
We do not actually provide a lowest-common-denominator. It is simpler to think of Xamarin as providing you with: * C# language on iOS, Android, Mac * 1:1 API bindings to whatever is native on a given platform. On iOS, the CocoaTouch APIs
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
The poster deleted the comment I was replying to.
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Hello, We fix the bugs, and the fixes ship on their own release cadence, when they happen to catch the next QA train. But enterprise customers typically develop/QA against a version, and are not willing to upgrade to v.Next that contains th
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Interview: Six Year Old iOS Product Manager(blog.xamarin.com)
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
It does not. And nobody claimed it did.
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
"var" is a shorthand to not declare the type when it can be inferred, in most cases to avoid Foo foo = new Foo(). The point is that it avoid repetitive typing, while still preserving type safety and everything that comes with it: compiler
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
I dont think I have your email address, but would love to share with you a tool I have been prototyping to identify the hard cycles in Objective-C that are causing the above leak problem. In short, you should not need to manually Dispose, b
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
There is only one place where the type inferencing is not supported, field declarations. Not sure how that became "most areas".
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
People are so cute when they threaten to leave California because their taxes are a little bit higher. He is likely taking advantage of the long term capitals gain tax already, reducing his taxes from 35% or so to 17% or so.
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
It is! We are hard at work in upgrading both MonoTouch and MonoDroid to use Mono 3.0's compilers and class libraries. That is why you have seen a flurry of commits to Mono's master tree. We are hoping to have a preview in late January.
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Agreed, not every app has to be done in that way, and for that there are plenty of alternative solutions. From HTML to Java, to Gtk# and a dozen more. This is a set of tools for developers that need to take advantage of native APIs, either
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Yes, MonoMac/MacCore will continue to be MIT X11. We will also continue to maintain it, as it shares most of the code for Xamarin.Mac
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
The MonoMacPackager no longer exists, and has not existed for a few months. We basically granted a license for appstore distribution to anyone that requested the license for AppStore distribution, since we did not originally have plans to
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Managed languages are designed with a different set of goals than unmanaged languages. C#'s design goals were in general to reduce the number of bugs, help developers write better code, and maintain the code over the long term. It has evol
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Seems like you want to throw the baby with the bath water. If the project is lacking tests -gasp- that right there is an area you could have contributed. If the project needs CI, I can tell you, it is not very hard to add. We would be hap
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Lovely! This sample shows the startup cost of LLVM. It is not ideal for short-running tasks, as just JITing this code with LLVM increases the overhead for this test by 0.42 seconds on my machine (iMac, 2010). Might be worth running this f
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
It looks like Tame is a pre-processo that outputs C++, hardly a C++ language feature. I mean, more power to you if you like to use those, but that is hardly C++. The Scala question seems to have too many caveats, you should read the commen
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
Generics, iterators, functional-style programming, LINQ, asynchronous programming, dynamic, Reflection.Emit are the things that I would miss.
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by migueldeicaza 14y ago
It is easy to be confused, because PCL is confusing. My personal preference is to just link source files and use partial classes (very much like the Linux kernel uses "pluggable" files to create a kernel) to create a product. The problem is

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