[seibelj]

This is amazing! But question - where is RoboVM? Please release to MIT license so it doesn't waste all of the work done so far.

[sremani]

If Xamarin is open sourced and RoboVM is dropped, I can only speculate that Microsoft did not want to touch JVM with a 10-foot pole and chose to not entertain Oracle legal. May be I am wrong, but that is one possibility.

[ZenoArrow]

IIRC, RoboVM is being dropped. No further development work. I could be wrong though, I'm half remembering it being discussed on a Reddit AMA with Miguel de Icaza.

EDIT: It wasn't in the AMA after all, but it has been dropped:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/death-robovm

[seibelj]

Perfect, so open source it so the community can continue, it's still #1 for the moment and libGDX might be better served by it than intel

[ZenoArrow]

Why would Microsoft open source a direct competitor to the Xamarin .NET platform?

The best option you're likely to get is to build on top of the older open-source RoboVM release:

https://github.com/robovm/robovm

[Aldo_MX]

RoboVM was forked, the fork is named BugVM[1], and it's currently maintained.

[1] http://bugvm.com/

[dminor]

There's quite a bit of work that's been done in RoboVM since that was forked.

[desdiv]

That I'm sure, but the project was only forked 6 months ago, so I'm sure BugVM can catch up, especially given that RoboVM is dead and thus a stationary target at this point.