I tried out Xamarin over a year ago (around the time 4.0 hit) with a bit of enthusiasm because C# is a good language and ended up frustrated by bugs. I'm excit

I tried out Xamarin over a year ago (around the time 4.0 hit) with a bit of enthusiasm because C# is a good language and ended up frustrated by bugs. I'm excited about the muscle of Microsoft getting further behind the platform. It is used surprisingly frequently for iOS apps. Regardless of whether I end up using it, this is a good thing in terms of pressure on Objective-C/Cocoa and Java/Android to improve developer workflows. This is exactly the kind of competition the mobile development space needs.