I have some detailed experience about the Xamarin route on Mac/Win, if you’re interested.
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Would you reconmend it for a large existing codebase and team?
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Not ideally, but…all options are hard, eh?
My data point: they didn’t support 64-bit on Mac till…2014, maybe? 7 years.
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So you have to ask yourself: what other new architectural advances will they remain half a decade behind on?
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Likely SOL on bitcode. Anything off the blessed clang toolchain from Apple at this point is suspect.
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Indeed. But transpiling Java to Obj-C, binding to C++, and using the JS VM would still be fine w.r.t. bitcode.
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Yes, because Mono contains its own compiler. Danger danger with respect to bitcode.
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Yeah, so anyway, something else to watch out for. I guess you could always write a frontend for LLVM for whatever
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Zero interest in that. We’re a tiny non-profit, and our primary problems are not technical.
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You’re primarily using a non-Apple runtime + bindings. If you can trust ’em, you’re golden, they do all the work.