Xamarin Joins Microsoft!
Microsoft buys Xamarin! While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza about what the acquisition of Xamarin means. The big news is that the Xamarin tools for making iOS and Android apps are now part of Visual Studio - all versions, right down to the Community Edition. And there's more (of course), so have a listen. Miguel digs into what this means for the average .NET developer going forward: .NET now runs everywhere you could possibly want to run code, and maybe a few spots you've never thought of. It's true, .NET really does rock!
Guests:
Miguel de Icaza
Miguel de Icaza is an open-source developer and advocate, and a Microsoft distinguished engineer.
Nat Friedman
An entrepreneur and developer, Nat is passionate about building products that delight customers, with love and attention to detail. Nat has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel. Nat was a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME foundation. At Novell Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business. Nat is an avid traveler who visited 20 countries in 2010, an active angel investor, and a private pilot.
Links:
- npm chaos story http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/23/npm_left_pad_chaos/
- Visual Studio Community Edition 2015 https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-community-vs.aspx
- Xamarin UI by Telerik http://www.telerik.com/xamarin-ui
- Urho https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/urho/