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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: if it's acquired by MS and
abandons it in two years.
FTFY
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Probably right...
Still, could be worse: acquired by Corel and filled chock-full of bugs?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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DaveAuld wrote: sounds / looks good, but the question is: Is it really? Does it justify its price?
It does have a nice look and feel to it. If I were doing open source C# or .Net development this would definitely be the tool I would want to grab since I only run Linux and OS X on my home machines now.
If I were going to do it for my IOS app development only then no the price is not justified.
I get XCode for free and only have to pay $100 for the right to publish my apps in the app store. Also learning ObjectiveC was not an issue (just another language) for me.
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I did a fairly extensive evaluation of cross platform frameworks last fall. Xamarin looked great at first. The more I looked into it, the less impressed I became. The first shock was the price (they charge $1000 a year per developer per platform.) What you get for that price falls short. I wasn't impressed with the support nor the maturity of Xamarin itself--there's too much "lead you up to the edge of the cliff and then leave."
A lot has changed in the last nine months, so your mileage may vary.
(FYI, I chose to go with Qt. I found it more mature and it gave us the performance we needed. Unfortunately, that project has since been cancelled, so it was all for naught.)
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DaveAuld wrote: Does it justify its price?
And what about performance?
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Don't ask me!
Performance is part of the justification of the price!
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Performance as in "The application is lightning fast" or as in "The developper is lightning fast" ?
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That depends on what matters to you.......choose your own metrics!
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Static linking to .NET makes for big footprints. No-one likes bloat.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Go for Qt. The offer the same capabilities, only that it's in ol' fashioned C++ and you can use it for free as long as you publish the product under the GPL.
The console is a black place
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I looked into it and read a lot about it last fall...
You still need to know how the platforms works, you still need to know how to make the different userinterfaces for android and IOS, and you need a mac in order to develop and debug IOS apps.
I read about a lot of problems with debugging IOS apps, from the Xamarin IDE.
I went with ADK (Eclipse) and Xcode and have never looked back. Objective-C kan be a bitch to learn, but once you get the hang of it, it's an okay language. Java is quite easy when you are used to C#.
- Anders
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Writhing time[^]
Well done France (did not see that coming) and Honduras.
TTFN - Kent
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Allez les bleus, Allez les bleus !!!!
For you non francophile, to have a "bleu" is to have a bruising)
I'd rather be phishing!
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For you non francophile, to be a "bleu" is to be a novice
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
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Good grief, it's dirtier than my car!
Just.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Yeah, also it probably has more miles on it too
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Awesome, needs a bath!
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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Meh. My truck is dirtier. Just the way it should be.
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Mars is solely inhabited by robots.
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A truth that had previously eluded me. Kudos for spotting it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Another early morning and another great episode.
Mirror, Mirror[^]
There have also been some books about the alternate universe which presented a more interesting Star Trek.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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Ah, those were the great days of Trek. The emphasis was on the human drama, not the special effects.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Indeed. Plus, because you were drawn into that human drama you often miss the frailty of the sets and the lack of those special effects. Great stuff that still stands up well today.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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