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Are you kidding me? There are so many better ways to code on multiple devices, and adding another abstract to an already complex ever-changing environment is a mistake. The only "financial incentive" is to deter programmers by the cost of VS and the lack of flexibility by changing languages into MS products. (i.e. TypeScript)



> There are so many better ways to code on multiple devices.

Such as?


Yeah I'm looking for a solution right now and would like to know the better alternatives that give me native apps.


Qt/C++ for one.


Interesting. How does the Qt approach compare to Mono for mobile development?

I presume Qt apps use Qt's built-in UI rendering, with QML for any UI-logic. Slightly different to MVVM in Mono where you recreate native UI's on each platform, but also hopefully means you only need to create the UI once?



$149 per month, yikes! And people say that Xamarin is expensive.


$1899 / 12 = $158.25


The more comparable license from Xamarin would be the $999 license, which works out to be $999 / 12 = $83.25


lol


You LOL, I deliver applications. To each its own.




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