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Great work, this is really cool. A couple of thoughts, idly:

- 'Xamarin Studio' just a new coat of paint on monodevelop, but it has some nice things in this version; new ui, the autocomplete especially is vastly improved.

- Seems a bit laggy on my mac mini for some reason, which is a bit disappointing, but works fine on my imac. Both mountain lion, so who knows?

- Still no PCL's for macs. :( sigh (yes, you still need to have a separate project for each platform, which includes all the same files).




I think some of the animation stuff is probably the cause of the lag on the mini you are seeing. I'm pretty sure we've already got a patch for this, it just wasn't in time for the final Xamarin Studio 4.0 build.

PCL's are coming. An upcoming Xamarin Studio 4.0.1 will improve PCL support even more - as in, it'll work on Mac, but it won't build true-PCL libraries (it'll link with the Xamarin.iOS or Xamarin.Android BCLs instead of with the true PCL assemblies).

This blog post by Stuart Lodge links to a custom build of MonoDevelop 3.1.1 with my PCL patches if you want to try them out: http://slodge.blogspot.com/2013/02/a-patched-monodevelop-for...


Are they contributing changes back to MonoDevelop?





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