6 engineers on Hacker News describe using Xamarin.Forms first-hand: 0 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“randomly-failing-builds Xamarin Forms”
regret · production · willemmali · 2017-01-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Xamarin Forms has its issues but now that it is open source the community can tackle those issues together.”
mixed · production · 2.5 yr · emmanvazz · 2016-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“most of my hatred is targeted towards Xamarin Studio and Xamarin.Forms”
regret · personal · T3RMINATED · 2016-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Xamarin.Forms is simply a disaster. Because it aims to unify the apis for the UIs for various platforms it boils down to only the most common denominator”
regret · production · mathijs · 2016-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“As like many other cross platform solutions Xamarin.Forms sucks.”
regret · production · umurgdk · 2016-11-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Anyway, development was really slow and performance is no were near to native. ... it was genuinely the worst development I had.”
regret · production · ParanoidShroom · 2015-04-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?