Symbian Source Code
A high school friend and I decided to try and port the .NET Compact Framework to Symbian OS, specifically Series 60. The company (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100112091803/http://www.redfivelabs.com/" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20100112091803/http://www.redfiv...</a>) was based in Johannesburg, South Africa and although we raised funding, we just took way too long.<p>We were lucky enough to be able to bootstrap some things with the Mono/Xamarin .NET implementation. Initially we created an interpreter but then created a full JIT compiler. It was not easy, to say the least, getting things to work on that platform.<p>What also didn’t help was the level of support we got from Symbian/Nokia; our project/startup was mostly met with indifference. By the time we had a viable, mostly functioning .NET Compact Framework v2 running the writing was on the wall vs iPhone.