When will Microsoft stop ruining good products?
Xamarin was a decent enough platform untill MS got a hold of it. Now, you never know what the next update will break.
Skype is already lost to the MS darkness.

@azuredivay I feel like they are rushing to integrate everything to VS. That is cool, but don't rush it.

Here are some stats: we experimented with Xamarin in VS at school: 10 students. 2 couldn't install it, 3 could never build a project, 2 had very regular build problems (projects that build one time won't build the next time, InitializeComponents not found...). Building a Xamarin project is like playing the lottery...

@Lukas I've experienced very similar issues with it in the real world.

it's finicky to set up for sure. but I haven't noticed a difference with it since the acquisition. it's still just as awkward because of the nature of what it is doing.

Skype has become so shit. They were in good hands

Is it actually production worthy? I can imagine that if you are a paying customer, you wouldn't be to happy with this@Treebasher

@Lukas I don't understand what you are asking. The truth is, I was using it as a contracted software engineer for a company (one of many). I got so fed up with spending more time trying to fix the build because of Xamarin than actually developing anything that I broke off the relationship.

Obviously I tried to do so in a civil way. But that experience left such a bad taste in my mouth for Xamarin.

@Lukas for what it's worth: yes, many of the company's clients were using the product in the real world. Development was just a mess.