I Switched Off Xamarin in 3 steps (here’s why)

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[00:00:00]Did you know I ditched Xamarin the day Microsoft bought it? Everyone called me crazy. Here was Microsoft giving Xamarin massive corporate backing, [music] and I'm walking away from the platform. But I saw something others missed. The acquisition didn't solve Xamarin's core problems. It made them worse. Build times were still brutal. Memory leaks plagued every app. And now we had corporate bureaucracy slowing down fixes. [music] While other developers celebrated the Microsoft deal, I started learning React Native. The transition took 6 [music] months of nights and weekends. I rebuilt my fitness tracking app in both platforms to compare. The results shocked me. React Native delivered [music] three times faster development cycles. Hot reload actually worked. Performance was smooth on budget Android devices. Two years later, while Xamarin developers were still fighting the same old bugs, I had shipped four profitable apps. Sometimes the best [music] move is zigging when everyone else zags. Trust your gut over the crowd.