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[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 05:37:39 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 05:20:27 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 05:14:59 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>> On 1 June 2015 at 14:05, weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
>>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 1 June 2015 at 03:38:44 UTC, Manu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On 1 June 2015 at 10:56, ketmar via Digitalmars-d
>>>>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 31 May 2015 09:08:27 +0000, Joakim wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Most mobile games are written in C/C++/OpenGL
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> that will fade away soon. it's safe to ignore that in 
>>>>>> long-time plan.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> How so? Game dev's aren't moving away from native code any 
>>>>> time soon...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> a large portion of ios, android, and steam games use unity, 
>>>> which outside of
>>>> the core engine uses mono for programming.
>>>
>>> Ah, yeah, but Unity itself is all C code. Every modern game 
>>> has a
>>> scripting solution, just that Unity has made that interface
>>> front-and-center. Lots of meaty Unity plugins are native too.
>>
>> Since last Unity version, C# is also compiled to native code 
>> via IL2CPP.
>
> Only because of mono's license update, it's why they've been 
> using a nearly decade old mono for so long.

No, only because they are too cheap to pay for the work of 
Xamarin.

I doubt that the amount of money wasted in Danish salaries for 
writing a .NET native compiler is cheaper than paying for the 
licenses.

However riding the fame wave is easy to forget how unknown they 
were before they firstly added Mono to their JavaScript and Boo 
offerings, followed by porting the engine to Windows.

So I don't really get why Xamarin gets the blame and Unity is 
portraid as the good guys.

For me they are just a company that got lucky using open source 
and now doesn't want to pay back.

Xamarin is doing great without their money.