@michaeldwan @natekontny Congrats! Quick question: why not React Native?

@joshuapinter good question 😁 After building a prototype in both I found myself more productive with Xamarin and c#. React native has a *lot* of awesome features that were tempting, but JavaScript quirks and thrashing in the ecosystem are real problems. Yes, we probably could've shipped in less time with React Native. Yes, CodePush is a game changer. I'm just not convinced this productivity will last over the years as the codebase ages and target platforms evolve. Maintaining a large app in a dynamic language is hard. Relying on frameworks and patterns that go from hot to passé to abandoned within a year is a recipe for the perpetual rewrite. We want to ship high quality mobile apps to our customers without requiring a dedicated mobile team. c#, Xamarin, and the surrounding tools let us do just that and are downright delightful to use. YMMV

@michaeldwan Thanks for the reply, Michael! We've got a couple apps using React Native and, yes, we've bumped up against some of those limitations. Hopefully, with Facebook (and even Microsoft) putting a lot of weight behind it and with strong community support it won't be going anywhere soon.