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Developers describe Orleans as "An approach to building distributed applications in .NET". Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was created by Microsoft Research and designed for use in the cloud. On the other hand, Xamarin is detailed as "Create iOS, Android and Mac apps in C#". Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

Orleans can be classified as a tool in the "Concurrency Frameworks" category, while Xamarin is grouped under "Cross-Platform Mobile Development".

Orleans is an open source tool with 5.12K GitHub stars and 1.24K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Orleans's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of Orleans

Pros of Xamarin

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Akka.net alternative
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Async/Await
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Virtual Actor Model
5
Scalable
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Distributed high-scale computing applications
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Open source
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Distributed ACID Transactions
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Objects
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Cross Platform
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Distributed Locking
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Fast
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Great concurrency model
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Message driven

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Power of c# on mobile devices
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Native performance
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Native apps with native ui controls
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No javascript - truely compiled code
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Sharing more than 90% of code over all platforms
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Ability to leverage visual studio
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Mvvm pattern
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Many great c# libraries
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Amazing support
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Powerful platform for .net developers
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GUI Native look and Feel
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Nuget package manager
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Free
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Backed by Microsoft
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Enables code reuse on server
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Faster Development
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Use of third-party .NET libraries
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It's free since Apr 2016
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Best performance than other cross-platform
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Easy Debug and Trace
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Open Source
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Mac IDE (Xamarin Studio)
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Xamarin.forms is the best, it's amazing
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That just work for every scenario
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C# mult paradigm language
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Power of C#, no javascript, visual studio
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Great docs
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Compatible to develop Hybrid apps
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Microsoft stack
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Microsoft backed
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Well Designed
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Small learning curve for Mobile developers
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Ionic
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Ability to leverage legacy C and C++

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Cons of Orleans

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Build times
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Visual Studio
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Price
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Complexity
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Scalability
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Nuget
2
Maturity
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Build Tools
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Support
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Maturidade
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Performance

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What is Orleans?

Orleans is a framework that provides a straightforward approach to building distributed high-scale computing applications, without the need to learn and apply complex concurrency or other scaling patterns. It was created by Microsoft Research and designed for use in the cloud.

What is Xamarin?

Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.

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What are some alternatives to Orleans and Xamarin?

Akka

Akka is a toolkit and runtime for building highly concurrent, distributed, and resilient message-driven applications on the JVM.

Dapr

It is a portable, event-driven runtime that makes it easy for developers to build resilient, stateless and stateful microservices that run on the cloud and edge and embraces the diversity of languages and developer frameworks.

Lens

It is the only IDE you’ll ever need to take control of your Kubernetes clusters. It is a standalone application for MacOS, Windows and Linux operating systems. It is open source and free.

Erlang

Some of Erlang's uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang's runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. OTP is set of Erlang libraries and design principles providing middle-ware to develop these systems.

JavaScript

JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.

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