Re:Swift and C# Quick Reference – Language Equivalents and C...
by taspeotis on Saturday February 28, 2015 @08:49PM
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> The addition of needing to use a mac as a buildhost just makes it inconvenient.
I agree it's an inconvenience but I find after the initial setup it works quite well. My workflow is to have a Mac Mini under my desk, with a USB extension lead taped beside my keyboard. Then I plug my iPhone in and once I push F5 Visual Studio talks to the build host which talks to my iPhone and builds/deploys/starts debugging and everything "just works".
The biggest impediment to being productive with Xamarin, in my opinion, is that every second release manages to break something.
I agree it's an inconvenience but I find after the initial setup it works quite well. My workflow is to have a Mac Mini under my desk, with a USB extension lead taped beside my keyboard. Then I plug my iPhone in and once I push F5 Visual Studio talks to the build host which talks to my iPhone and builds/deploys/starts debugging and everything "just works".
The biggest impediment to being productive with Xamarin, in my opinion, is that every second release manages to break something.