Re:Ask HN: Is Xamarin worth learning?
by tonypp on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @07:23PM
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I will re-iterate the "Stay the hell away from Xam.Forms" as we've used it at work for almost 1.5 years.
I just convinced our management to move away from it when I migrated a page from Xamarin.Forms to regular Xamarin.Android. The page render time went from 2,000ms to 400ms.
A quick glance on the now-open source code of Xamarin Forms now shows you why the perf is so sluggish (the whole thing seems like it was hacked together by a college intern as a week-end project).
Xamarin seems to have a marketing team that is far ahead of their development team.
I just convinced our management to move away from it when I migrated a page from Xamarin.Forms to regular Xamarin.Android. The page render time went from 2,000ms to 400ms.
A quick glance on the now-open source code of Xamarin Forms now shows you why the perf is so sluggish (the whole thing seems like it was hacked together by a college intern as a week-end project).
Xamarin seems to have a marketing team that is far ahead of their development team.