I looked into buying it. It gave cross platform to write in c# and have it function across iiPhone, iPad and android devices.
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 11:17 AM, Paul Hill paulroberthill@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 February 2016 at 16:51, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
So, many years ago, Miguel de Icaza tried to create a .NET compatible environment in the open source environments with the Mono project. Somewhere along the way, the Ximian company running that project got bought by Novell, then shuffled off by Attachmate, then spun off as Xamarin (with $87,000,000 in venture capital funding) and now bought by Microsoft.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-xamarin-purchase-is-a-blunder/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
Supposedly, the first targets (Linux and OS X) have been changed to IOS and Android.
Is anyone using Ximian to write apps for phones?
It's too expensive! IIRC $1000 per year per developer per platform. I suspect Microsoft will release it for free.
It's quite interesting. Microsoft had already open sourced the dot net core (which I believe already runs on ARM) and I thought they were going to release something like Ximian themselves.
-- Paul
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