Re:Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here
by cageface on Sunday July 28, 2013 @01:49AM
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Don't you work for JetBrains? Couldn't the same thing be said for your tools? I love them but they're not cheap.
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Re:Major upgrades to Xamarin’s platform: Async is here
by solomatov on Sunday July 28, 2013 @04:30AM
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The situation is very different here. The core IntelliJ is open source. There're plenty of open source alternatives. So if the license is changed, there're a plenty of options to migrate project to alternative IDEs.
In case of Xamarin, there's no such choice. Only Xamarin can compile C# to iOS, and if the license changes, the whole project implemented with the tool is locked in. The only option is to rewrite the whole project with alternative technology.
I think, LGPL open source core SDK + paid IDE + paid additional libraries would be a much better choice which mitigates the risk. But Xamarin for some reason decided to choose a different path.