Being able to sanely bridge to C++ code from any language is a huge deal, Miguel and the rest of the folks at Xamarin are tackling some very difficult problems

Being able to sanely bridge to C++ code from any language is a huge deal, Miguel and the rest of the folks at Xamarin are tackling some very difficult problems and succeeding. Especially for the games industry which Xamarin is really interested in developing for (i.e. Mono as your game's scripting engine while the core renderer is in C++), simple binding to C++ will be awesome.