Microsoft to acquire Xamarin

Doomsday for Xamarin.

They will probably focus on Windows phone support (well, duh) and neglect others. Developers will just flock to alternative projects. Development will cease and Microsoft will be back to square one.
 
PTNL said:
This is another step for Microsoft in getting their products out there and on more platforms. They've been making moves such as this purchase (which many saw as developing for a few years), plus announcements such as SQL Server native support on Linux and (over a year ago) getting the .Net core to run on Linux and Mac.
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.Net is already supported on Linux and OSX through Mono.

Microsoft isn't solving any problems on Linux. In fact, they will probably create one by offering commercial products and neglecting true (GPL or similar) open-source offerings.

Similar to how Oracle neglected MySQL in favor of their own DBMS, Microsoft will neglect Mono.
 
krogen said:
.Net is already supported on Linux and OSX through Mono.
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Mono was a from-scratch implementation of .Net based on the ECMA spec, which is quite different than the link I posted.
 
krogen said:
Doomsday for Xamarin.

They will probably focus on Windows phone support (well, duh) and neglect others. Developers will just flock to alternative projects. Development will cease and Microsoft will be back to square one.
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I don't think its future is that bleak:

ars said:
Xamarin also supports development on OS X using Xamarin Studio. This too is now available for free as a community edition for small teams, and is included in MSDN Subscriptions.

Microsoft will also be open sourcing the Xamarin SDK over the next few months. This move means that the Xamarin runtime and libraries, as well as all its build tools, will be released on Github, and they'll be managed by the .NET Foundation. Included in this open sourcing is the Xamarin Forms library that provides a cross-platform toolkit for building user interfaces.
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MS could neglect it on other platforms, but that won't stop others from using the same codebase to keep it in sync on Linux and OS X. The situation should be better than Mono, as pointed out above.
 
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