Huge Boost for Xamarin

Today, Microsoft bought Xamarin, a software company whose tools allow you to write cross-platform native mobile apps in C#.

I say this is a boost for Xamarin because it should greatly drive adoption if it presumably gets bundled in Visual Studio for free, in lieu of the pricey license previously needed for the toolset.

I was a huge advocate of WPF, XAML, and MVVM coming off winforms. However, with the advent of data-binding on the web with the likes of angular, the death of Silverlight, and the lack of direction for WPF, I’m sad to say XAML is a dying language. Acquiring Xamarin will give it one last dying breath, but this too shall pass.

Just like TFS conceded to git, XAML/C# couldn’t defeat HTML/JavaScript as seen with WinRT.

As exciting as this announcement is, I still have my money on HTML and JavaScript (e.g. Ionic and Cordova.)