[colkassad]

At a $1,000 a license? I don't think so.

[akmiller]

$1,000 seems pretty meager to me. If I can share well over 50% of my code across multiple platforms then that is code that I don't have to rewrite in another language. If that 50% takes more than 10 hours to reproduce (allocating my time at $100.00/hr) then it is well worth the expense. That doesn't even factor in the time saved in maintaining the application going forward.

Granted, if you are just building a small application that you don't plan to support multiple platforms then that price would seem steep.

[lucian1900]

I think it's more important that it's prohibitive to play around with it or produce open source software.

[akmiller]

But you can download it and play around with it for free.

[lucian1900]

Only in the emulator. I think that's the problem.

[profquail]

That's for an enterprise-level license -- the 'professional' license is $399: https://store.xamarin.com/

[colkassad]

Thanks, I didn't see that.