[shaneofalltrad]

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)

[adamnemecek]

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

Such as?

[philtar]

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

[pjmlp]

Qt/C++ for one.

[mands]

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?

[pjmlp]

Yes, you can either use QML or C++.

http://qt.digia.com/qtmobile/?utm_campaign=qtprojectbanner

[jstedfast]

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

[sergiotapia]

lol

[pjmlp]

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