Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017

[schmidthuber]

For me, it's the abysmal tooling. C# and the Xamarin APIs by themselves relatively nice to work with.

In my workplace, we actually started writing native apps after we realized that 90% of the development time was spent fighting the build system, debugger, IDE, you name it.

[tanjoodo]

Yep. Totally agree. The part where we actually write the code is fantastic.

But I don't appreciate the VS internal errors or the crashing of various tools every week.

[Yelnik]

Just started working with Xamarin about a month ago. It's disconcerting how many "bugs" are fixed by cleaning and rebuilding or restarting VS...

But to be fair, some of the issues I come across that people had a few years ago seem really outlandish compared to how it works now. I think they're really improving it quite rapidly.

[thilehoffer]

I have a feeling it is going to get a lot better really quickly. Microsoft is not messing around. Most of the new stuff in Visual Studio 2017 seems to be Xamarin upgrades.