Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
by ZenoArrow on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @05:32PM
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It would be great to use Visual Studio on other platforms, but it's unlikely to happen any time soon (unless Microsoft have been working on it in secret). Visual Studio is a Win32 application, we haven't even seen a 64-bit version of it yet, I'd expect to see Visual Studio become a 64-bit WPF application before it becomes cross-platform.
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Re:Microsoft Acquires Xamarin
by revelation on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @05:54PM
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Visual Studio already uses WPF where it matters (the actual editor is WPF, I think, among other things).
That said, the core and infrastructure and all the stuff that makes it run is still a radioactive COM wasteland, and from experience trying to write an extension once, you can tell..