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Xamarin Blog[^]:
The statisticians behind the Popularity of Programming Languages (PYPL) index have named C# the language of the year for 2012. Their data shows that C# popularity grew by 2.3 percent in 2012, more than any other programming language during the same period. What accounts for the growth of C# in 2012? Well, the launch of Windows 8 has probably played a role — C# remains the dominant language of third-party application development on Windows devices. But we think there’s more to it than that.

Between Windows, iOS and Android, your C# code can run on over 2.2 billion devices.

https://store.xamarin.com/[^]

If I was selling copies for android at $399 each and for ios at $399 each I would also be saying the same thing.

My thoughts exactly.

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I'd rather stick with Android development using Eclipse and Java, can't beat the price of FREE Poke tongue | ;-P

I've checked out Xamarin and will not fork over $399-$999 for it, sorry.

"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak

Paul Conrad wrote:
can't beat the price of FREE

Sure you can; free stuff is often crap. I'd rather pay for a good tool than use a crappy free one.

Paul Conrad wrote:
will not fork over $399-$999 for it,

Well, no, no tool is worth that.

PIEBALDconsult wrote:
free stuff is often crap

I agree, there is crappy free stuff out there, but there is also good free stuff as well.

PIEBALDconsult wrote:
no tool is worth that.

That's how I feel at the moment for Xamarian. It's very nice and all for doing Android dev in C#, but not worth the money (I certainly won't pay 400 bucks just for hobby projects with it). If I had a great app idea and wanted to implement it in C#, then maybe the commercial license, but why when there's Eclipse?

"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak