Android Ported To C# 351
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."
Re:Android (Score:4, Insightful)
Microsoft is a bigger, more evil giant than even Oracle.
I'm not entirely sure you've ever dealt with Oracle...
Re:Android (Score:5, Insightful)
Bigger? Perhaps. More evil? Not a chance in hell.
Re:RUN FOR YOUR LIVES (Score:2, Insightful)
Sounds like you are doing it wrong then, because there's a whole ecosystem of .Net developers out there who seem to get things done just fine...
Re:Android (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Android (Score:4, Insightful)
Java has something C# lacks: a good IDE. ... ? Monodevelop? Yeah right. Visual Studio. LOL!
Java has eclipse.
C# has
Re:Android (Score:2, Insightful)
Both are "Do No Good". Theres a Google rap sheet a mile long stemming from the last 4 years.
"Do No Good"? Isn't there anything they might have done recently that might earn them a little karma? Like say, pulling out of China when every other corporation is busy sucking Comrade Dick for the mere hint of market access.
It's costing them, too. For instance, the PRC government has been threatening to disrupt the Motorola merger -- since Motorola has a major presence in China (including a lot of development and manufacturing), they could seriously work Google over using their regulatory agencies.