Microsoft has acquired Xamarin. It has finally happened, and while a few years back this would have been horrifying news, I’m actually OK with it now.
This news is exciting for a few different reasons. It raises many questions, and opens up a whole ton of possibilities for .NET development in a multi-platform world.
With the recent news of Adobe Flash been re-branded as Adobe Animate (Animate CC, to be exact), and the less-recent news that Mozilla would follow in Google’s footsteps in pulling the plug on NPAPI for Firefox, browser-based games are left in a somewhat awkward spot. Unity has moved away from their web player in (desperate) favor of WebGL. Where do they go from here?