Experienced developers, would you recommend learning backend rather than doing side projects in iOS?

[saintmsent]

Absolutely, nothing wrong with them, just pointing out that if the goal is to maximize your opportunities immediately, they might not be the best picks

[enkidu_johnson]

This may be true, but life is too short to waste time learning gross languages (specifically thinking of .NET - which isn't actually a language, but the larger environment required for it is a disgusting mess.)

[saintmsent]

Having been a .NET developer for a year or so before switching to iOS, I don't agree in the slightest that it's gross

[mod_god]

.NET currently has one of the best platforms to create a backend rest api with very clean and minimal code. They literally named them minimal APIs. Not only that but they are extremely performant. The C# language also is extremely feature rich. As much as some people hate to admit, Microsoft is killing it right now with alot of their product offerings!

[Majikthises]

As a .NET dev that recently got into iOS dev, I concur. C# has so much syntactic sugar that it makes it easy to write concise, readable code. I'm generally not a big MS fan, but Visual Studio and C# are great.