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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by euroclydon on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:25PM (#11398369)
Making the barriers low for Azure is huge. They have such an advantage over Amazon and Google here. Google has no IDE to speak of. Amazon has no IDE, language(s), runtime, etc.
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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by Eridrus on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:58PM (#11399146)
> Google has no IDE to speak of.

Not quite true; Android Studio has some tools to help you get a mobile backend onto Google's cloud.

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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by st3v3r on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:22PM (#11398847)
Another way of saying it is that Amazon has every IDE, language, runtime, etc.
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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by mixmastamyk on Thursday March 31, 2016 @01:28PM (#11398906)
Do they need them? There are hundreds of free(dom) choices.
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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by darthdeus on Thursday March 31, 2016 @02:54PM (#11399609)
And all of those choices are utterly horrible (IDEs, not editors).
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Re:Xamarin now free in Visual Studio, and Xamarin SDK being ... by joelg236 on Thursday March 31, 2016 @04:05PM (#11400199)
What makes you say that?
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