Xamarin Acquires Petzold

Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by nbevans on Monday August 04, 2014 @09:58PM (#8135160)

Screw C#. Xamarin's party trick is F#. It's basically Swift, on steroids, which lets you write a single codebase to target Android, iOS and Windows Phone.

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by gress on Monday August 04, 2014 @10:12PM (#8135202)

Has anyone actually done this?

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by bratsche on Monday August 04, 2014 @10:27PM (#8135234)

Yes. I don't know of any big apps like Rdio that you would recognize yet, because Xamarin hasn't supported F# that long, but there are cross-platform apps being written in F# now.

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by gress on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @12:38AM (#8135542)

Actual consumer apps, or in-house line of business apps for corporations?

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by profquail on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @06:59AM (#8136295)

I believe Tachyus (http://tachyus.com) is using Xamarin + F# for their product.

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by gress on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @03:12PM (#8138720)

So, no. Not a consumer app.

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Re:Xamarin Acquires Petzold by CmonDev on Tuesday August 05, 2014 @04:01AM (#8135971)

"...F#. It's basically Swift..." - that slow after compilation???

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