I was honestly surprised to see Microsofts name on there as a contributor

bithavoc · on March 3, 2021

I'm surprised too, they now have:

- MFC

- WinForms

- Windows Presentation Foundation

- Xamarin & Xamarin Forms

- Universal Windows Apps

- WinUI 2 & 3

- React Native fork for Windows (based on WinUI 2 migrating to WinUI 3)

- React Native fork for Mac (based on AppKit)

And now they also contribute to Flutter, wow.

bliteben · on March 3, 2021

You forgot blaze and prob uncountable other projects

tasogare · on March 3, 2021

Classical MS move: spending more efforts on competing technologies than on their own (in this case dotnet).

mikece · on March 3, 2021

Even Microsoft realize that Xamarin is not a tool for serious mobile or desktop development. Sure, you can get apps that work but they are 2.5x larger than if you had written them in Java or Kotlin and offer no more features than if you had done a hybrid mobile app with Ionic instead. Everyone thought Microsoft acquired Xamarin for the mobile dev tooling? No: it was the only way they could get the brain trust and the core Mono team at Xamarin to come work for them.

lostmsu · on March 3, 2021

That would not be a problem, if you could publish a shared runtime in Google Play. Phones are still really bad platform.