I'm not sure if it's even possible, since Xamarin is based on Mono, but is it possible that Microsoft will at some point decide not to support Mono with. For me it looks like Xamarin is much more important for Microsoft than Mono itself. I'm also not sure how well-supported Mono will be in the future. But as far as I know Xamarin > Mono and I don't get everything in Mono I could get in Xamarin. Being able to develop on Linux would be nice, but is optional.īut after all my Google research, I could only find information and people asking for support to develop on Linux and not for Linux.Īs far as I know, this shouldn't be a problem with Mono alone. Not being able to release my software for Linux would be a deal breaker for me. Since Xamarin is free and open source now and I still don't have much experience in Qt, I'm considering trying out Xamarin for cross platform development instead of Qt. With Qt you can develop on Windows, Linux, and Mac and for Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, Windows Mobile. Right now I have a bit of experience with Qt and no experience with Xamarin. But it's not impossible that I could switch to Mac. Is it possible to develop and build Linux applications with Xamarin with the same code base?Īfter a few years with Ubuntu, my main OS right now is Windows again.

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