I sympathize with your anxiety. Those of us who committed to MT early on had many sleepless nights this year as we waited for the Attachmate/Xamarin drama to play out.
However, there is a risk in adopting any platform. I can easily list a dozen technologies supported by huge companies that were allowed to die, or killed outright, leaving their dev communities in the lurch. Just a few months ago WebOS was a promising new platform enthusiastically supported by HP - now it's dead, or nearly so. I don't have any insight into Xamarin's inner workings. But I know that they're lead by two guys (Nate and Miguel) who have a track record of success. And they have a team of very smart people who are actively involved in the community. So I don't think there is any near-term risk of them failing. Long term, who knows? Nobody can predict the future. As far ask keeping up with Apple's releases, the team has a really good track record. MT 5 was released the same day as iOS 5. Past MT releases typically happened within days of the corresponding iOS release. JA On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 11:51 AM, MojoDK <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Let me start by saying - I absolutely love Monotouch! I started using > Monotouch only a few weeks ago, and as a DotNet programmer, I was writing > my > program right away. > > But I'm concerned... > > Will Monotouch exists in a year (or two)? > What if Xamarin/Monotouch bankrupts and stops realeasing new versions? Will > our projects die? > Does Monotouch go hand in hand with Xcode? I guess that a Monotouch release > for iOS5 will not work with an Xcode release for iOS6? > Should we be concerned? > > I see a very buggy MonoDevelop - often I can't click buttons, set > breakpoints etc. Bugs that should have been fixed long time ago/right away. > Help file is crashing ... documentation is extremely limited. It makes me > worry about the effort put into MonoDevelop/touch. How many is working on > MonoDevelop/Touch? > > Just curious to hear your thoughts. > > I really do hope MonoDevelop will exists for a long time (as long as Apple > doesn't do anything stupid) and a lotta effort will be put into it. > > :) > Thanks, > Mojo > > -- > View this message in context: > http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/Monotouch-future-proof-tp4120075p4120075.html > Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >
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