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Re:Swift Ported to Android by untog on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:02AM (#11174836)
> C# benefits from the whole Microsoft ecosystem, which includes Visual Studio.

Both good and bad. Visual Studio isn't cross-platform, for example.

Re:Swift Ported to Android by kbenson on Thursday February 25, 2016 @10:48AM (#11175167)
Well, Visual Studio Code[1] is, so it may be coming in the future.

1: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/code-vs.aspx

Re:Swift Ported to Android by untog on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:27AM (#11175477)
They're entirely different products, Code is built from the ground up. So I'm not sure it makes a cross-platform Visual Studio more likely.
Re:Swift Ported to Android by kbenson on Thursday February 25, 2016 @11:52AM (#11175710)
I would say the fact MS is shipping products on Linux, considering their historical stance, makes it more likely, but your sentiment is probably correct in that it may not mean it is likely. Ten years ago I would have laughed at the idea. Today, I have to think quite a bit more about whether it's likely.
Re:Swift Ported to Android by st3v3r on Thursday February 25, 2016 @12:52PM (#11176201)
I would not use the existence of an editor built on web technologies as opening the possibility that something as entrenched in Windows as Visual Studio would be leaping to cross platform.