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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by Maarten88 on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @03:08PM (#11169795)
When the integration is done, we'll have Dotnet Core targeting Windows, OSX, Linux, Android and iOS. There will be frameworks for serverside and clientside applications.

I think it can become the best alternative to the javascript world, which already can target all these, but needs all kinds of native support and is much less solid as a language.

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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by PhilWright on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @08:22PM (#11171720)
If they could convince all browsers to host some version of the CLR so you could have IL and so (C#/VB.NET/F#) as a viable alternative to JavaScript then I would agree.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by knocte on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @09:41PM (#11172009)
No need. The future is WebAssembly. We just need C#/F# compilers that generate this new IL.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by kodablah on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @11:18PM (#11172359)
https://github.com/WebAssembly/ilwasm - Of course WebAssembly being still in the design stage, this is probably not very usable.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by knocte on Thursday February 25, 2016 @03:04AM (#11173033)
nice!
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by ArtScott on Sunday March 06, 2016 @07:21PM (#11236336)
Plan for - FSTWASM experimental/incubator project FSharp To WebAssembly
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by rpgmaker on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:47AM (#11175659)
> I think it can become the best alternative to the javascript world

Ugh no. Professionally, I would have a lot to gain from that as a developer but in general that would be an awful turn of events. Long term it would be a net negative for the world and we all should know better by now.

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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin by hnbroseph on Thursday February 25, 2016 @01:58PM (#11176795)
would it hurt to qualify anything, or is this just your current emotional state?
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