From Mono to MAUI: the History of Xamarin
summary
Starts with Miguel de Icaza implementing C# on Linux in 2001 and turns into shipping MonoTouch (iOS) and Mono for Android compilers by 2011, charging about $400 per seat for Mono for iOS and attracting Unity as a customer. Novell and Microsoft inject ~ $240M of deals and acquisitions follow; Xamarin raises multiple rounds and builds Xamarin Test Cloud (later App Center). Microsoft acquires Xamarin in 2016, unifies BCLs under .NET 5/6 and enables MAUI, which ships incrementally and stabilizes across .NET 7–8.
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chapters (20)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:52The birth of .NET
- 6:39The Mono project
- 9:17Longhorn and Mono
- 12:32Mono and Unity
- 14:13Novell and the iPhone
- 16:13Silverlight and Netflix
- 19:06iOS development
- 21:53The death of Silverlight
- 25:34The birth of Xamarin
- 29:28Microsoft pivots
- 31:57Xamarin grows
- 35:50Open sourcing .NET
- 38:52Visual Studio Code
- 41:22Microsoft acquires Xamarin
- 43:15Unifying .NET
- 45:43The road to .NET 6
- 48:08MAUI and Blazor
- 50:37Future challenges
- 54:30Conclusion
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