[keithba]

The team is extremely passionate about creating developer productivity tools. App Center's creators include the founders of HockeyApp, Xamarin Test Cloud, and CodePush. This is something we were all iterating towards individually, and when we met up at Microsoft, we realized we now had the team and ability to make it happen.

Microsoft is very serious about creating amazing developer tool across any app, platform, and language for a variety of reasons. Making Azure the most productive place to power your app is part of it, of course. But, in the long run, the easier we make development, the more the world benefits.

[orand]

Thanks, that makes a lot of sense to see this from the background of HockeyApp, Xamarin Test Cloud, and CodePush coming together. Ignore the non-answer guy, this is a totally sufficient answer in my opinion.

[jksmith]

You need golang on that toolchain. It is arguably the language of the cloud at this point.

[lardo]

What a lovely nonanswer.

[tkjef]

Seems like it's to get more people on Azure. Doesn't look like it works with AWS or GCP.