Microsoft Open-Sources Windows Bridge For iOS

An anonymous reader writes: Previously known as Project Islandwood, Microsoft today released an early version of Windows Bridge for iOS, a set of tools that will allow developers to port iOS apps to Windows. The announcement reads in part: "We're releasing the iOS bridge as an open-source project under the MIT license. Given the ambition of the project, making it easy for iOS developers to build and run apps on Windows, it is important to note that today's release is clearly a work-in-progress — some of the features demonstrated at Build are not yet ready or still in an early state. Regardless, we'd love for the interested and curious to look at the bridge, and compare what we're building with your app's requirements. And, for the really ambitious, we invite you to help us by contributing to the project, as community contributors — with source code, tests, bug reports, or comments. We welcome any and all participation in building this bridge." The source code is available now on Github.

Comments

Re: Backfire

[davester666]

If you have actually used it to run a windows app, you would know IT TOTALLY SUCKS. Yes, the app may 'run', either partially or fully, but it's worse than even a Java app. It sure as hell ain't 'ported' to the OS.

You only use Wine if you are too lazy to bother pirating Windows to run in a VM.