Re:Developers: Don't Treat the Windows Store like the iOS Ap...
by eropple on Thursday October 18, 2012 @10:04PM
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> Author here; I love the Mac App Store and want to eventually use MonoMac to port some of my Windows stuff over to it :)
I personally don't recommend this. I've been a big, big Mono booster over the years, but I have a hard time trusting the developers behind it. (For an illustrative example as to why, take a look at MonoTouch's problems with iOS 6. That bit my employer in the ass. It hasn't happened with MonoMac, but to me there's a "yet" involved.)
As un-sexy as it is, C or C++ seem to be the way to go. It's what I'm doing now, with a platform-appropriate hat on top that uses as little Objective-C (on OS X) as possible.
I personally don't recommend this. I've been a big, big Mono booster over the years, but I have a hard time trusting the developers behind it. (For an illustrative example as to why, take a look at MonoTouch's problems with iOS 6. That bit my employer in the ass. It hasn't happened with MonoMac, but to me there's a "yet" involved.)
As un-sexy as it is, C or C++ seem to be the way to go. It's what I'm doing now, with a platform-appropriate hat on top that uses as little Objective-C (on OS X) as possible.