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tdicola on April 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing .NET Native Preview

Yeah I don't understand the need to get rid of a .NET framework dependency though. This only supports building Windows store apps, which only run on devices that have the .NET framework right now...

itsboring on April 3, 2014 [–]

One admittedly crazy theory is that this is laying the groundwork for building iOS apps and therefore would compete with Xamarin. Any kind of JIT would not be allowed on the iOS app store.

tsenkov on April 3, 2014 | [–]

The word is, that Microsoft is talking with Xamarin about a possible acquisition.

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