Android Ported To C#

New submitter Eirenarch writes "Xamarin has just announced that they got the Java part of Android ported to C# via machine translation. The resulting OS, called XobotOS, is available on Github. They claim some serious performance gains over Dalvik. For them, this is an experiment that they are not planning to focus on, but they will be using some of the technologies in Mono for Android."

Software Apocolypse...

[raydobbs]

....this still won't save you from the Oracle software apocalypse [slashdot.org].

Re:Android

[TheRaven64]

Maybe if Google ships this Microsoft and Oracle will fight to the death over who gets to sue Google...

Re:c# what a lousy name

[zill]

No wonder C# never caught on. Microsoft grossly overestimated the cardinality of the intersection between the set of programming nerds and the set of music nerds.

Re:Android

[zill]

The order of the battle has already been decided. Oracle is the mini boss and Microsoft is the last boss.

Re:Software Apocolypse...

[nicholas22]

If Oracle wins the suit, this project will be liable for damages to Google :) A brave new world indeed!

Re:RUN FOR YOUR LIVES

[FrootLoops]

I agree this is off-topic, but I really like WPF. It has a steep learning curve and a lot of quirks, but data binding, templates, and the layout system save a lot of time and make things look nice. The people complaining about WPF in your link often called themselves old; maybe that's the real problem (I'm quite young).

Re:c# what a lousy name

[Anonymous Coward]

Hash? I though it was a bunch of pluses squished together to save space. You're saying C# isn't C++++?

Wow, my mind's blown. Cue Lemmings' self-destruct animation: Grabs head and explodes!

Re:c# what a lousy name

[Anonymous Coward]

Looked like C tic tac toe to me.

Re:Android

[Bobfrankly1]

Microsoft is a bigger, more evil giant than even Oracle.

I'm not entirely sure you've ever dealt with Oracle...

Oracle vs Google is like "do no good" vs "do no evil".

Re:Android

[Trogre]

Why is that? Has Ballmer stood down as CEO or something?

I know Oracle is a horrible, horrible company, not worthy of our money but comparing it to Microsoft is perhaps like comparing Robert Mugabe to Atilla the Hun.