Xamarin Acquires Petzold

Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by yulaow on Monday August 04, 2014 @07:04PM (#8134563)

Well not having a linux working version ( at least of xamarin.android) is not helping to fight back that sentiment

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by mands on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @05:58AM (#8136199)

That is true. I have a Xamarin plan for use with Visual Studio for developing mobile apps in F#.

However I'm just keep running into stumbling blocks and general frustration developing in Windows, having switched from 10yrs of Linux purely for VS. With the general improvements in Mono and the open sourcing of F# I'd love to use them all together on Linux and take advantage of the greater OSS developer ecosystem there.

Monodevelop/Xamarin Studio is fine for development, more so with the newly-added split-view, and the F# support is pretty much on a par with VS these days, but without Xamarin.Android/iOS support I simply can't move.

Maybe I should suck it up and buy a Mac instead.

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by sandyarmstrong on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @09:37AM (#8136795)

> Maybe I should suck it up and buy a Mac instead.

That is definitely the more comfortable migration path for users coming from a Linux background.

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by WorldWideWayne on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @07:59PM (#8140227)

If you don't want to give your money to Apple, grab a used Macbook Pro and throw an SSD in it. The latest version of OS X runs on models all the way back to the early 2008 edition and maybe even further.

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by xpaulbettsx on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @04:35AM (#8136033)

Xamarin recently hired the maintainer of Mono on Debian to work on getting Linux versions of Xamarin working

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by segmondy on Monday August 04, 2014 @10:05PM (#8135185)

Do you create windows versions of your applications or win 8 apps? If not, you are being hypocritical.

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by a-saleh on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @01:29AM (#8135687)

Well, first I am creating a little game, and MonoGame (awesomely cross-platform opensource port of XNA) is awesome, and I would love to work in officialy supported Xamarin on linux and not fiddle around with old builds of MonoDevelop.

And second, for doing any serious CI/QA-Automation, Linux sucks the least IMHO :) But that might be just the years at RedHat speaking :P

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by CmonDev on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @03:58AM (#8135964)

Targeting the 1-3% percent of developers willing to work on Linux doesn't make much commercial sense.

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by adamors on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @05:27AM (#8136140)

You're confusing developers with generic end users/consumers. Yes, Linux has a low market share among the general population, but it's quite popular with people who write code.

For a lot of things it's important to have a decent terminal emulator, a Unix file system etc. Windows has none of these out of the box and even things like Cygwin are a pain to use.

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