What you're saying doesn't make any sense. MonoDevelop is developed by the same team, and MonoTouch is an extension of MonoDevelop. No doubt developing an IDE is a massive undertaking, but that doesn't soften the expectations of C# devs as VS.NET + ReSharper is vastly more productive than MonoDevelop.
They added support to MonoTouch because they wanted. > They would have been free to say MonoTouch guys "hey! make your own IDE, or > fork our, but don't use our name!" Incorrect, MonoTouch sells the whole dev experience package of productively being able to develop on iOS with C# - If they just told you to roll with a text editor the MT value proposition would be much lower. Not wanting to downplay how good MonoDevelop is (it's a nugget considering the dev team size) but it doesn't hold a candle to VS.NET + R#. So the current choice is iOS + XCode/Objective-C(or jetbrains' AppCode) or MonoDevelop/C#/MonoTouch, and yes, IMO C#/MT is still much better value. That's not an to suggest they're good enough, cause better IDE's exist. Anyway none of this matters, we're still in a turbulent time where we're developing against a deprecated product hanging on for Xamarin's successor to take it's place. This whole situation just seems futile to me, Attachmate aren't doing any favours keeping their useless/unsupported tech closed source and they're aggravating their customer base, we all know they're incapable of supporting us but they continue to suggest they're willing and committed - it's disgusting and serves no purpose except to prevent us from collecting refunds for an unsupported/deprecated product. Regardless, Xamarin tech will be source compatible so at least MT investments have a future. - Demis On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Natalia Portillo <[email protected]>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Just a thing > > > code 1" - friggin' lovely. For a FOSS IDE, MonoDevelop is a nice bit of > > work, but it's buggy and tempermental, the last thing you want to deal > > with when trying to meet deadlines (well other than having your > > development platform pulled out from under you 2 weeks before a major POC > > release by a bunch of copraphagic corporate-types). While it's amazing > > Do you blame the GCC guys (Free Software Foundation) when Xcode, > KDevelop, Anjuta, Emacs, <put your favourite GCC IDE here> sucks, crashes, > sends all your unsaved work to Limbo ??? > > MonoDevelop just happens to be the only MonoTouch IDE, that doesn't mean > MonoTouch requires it, and of course, that doesn't mean the MonoDevelop > guys > received ANY cent from the money that everyone spent on MonoTouch or > MonoDroid. > > They added support to MonoTouch because they wanted. > They would have been free to say MonoTouch guys "hey! make your own IDE, or > fork our, but don't use our name!" > > So, don't blame the compiler guys for the IDE bugs, they're mostly > different guys. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) > Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org > > iF4EAREIAAYFAk3pqlsACgkQv/wfOsykIRSFEQEAqDtruSUIDgLrA/CcVouJPw2H > hwt4cd9oUV63QPkVaaEA/iIE3oIH3Ifxw+f41QNFvhLSYhBj+ut/flvzBfuZDnIr > =9mjK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >
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