I have dabbled very briefly with Xamarin in the past and it felt a bit clunky and slow, and I have seen people talking disparagingly about it. It seems like flutter is the new kid on the block that everyone is raving about.

However I love working in C#. If I moved to flutter it would be a whole new load of learning before I could get my prototype up and running.

What are your thoughts on Xamarin? Is it not as bad as I hear? I don't need an amazing developer experience - just a passable one. Also I would be able to leverage all the existing amazing libraries for C# I am familiar with.

When I did briefly try flutter it was cool how it updated immediately, but the the whole opening curly brace on the same line thing gives me hives. Maybe I could get used to it though.

What do you reckon? Part of me wants you to say Xamarin is actually fine, and its supposed problems are overblown - that way I can stay in my comfort zone with C#.