Xamarin – The latest release is unusable and I need to vent

What's amazing is watching the big names on the Xamarin team elegantly talk patiently around what seems to be the majority complaint: "I updates my OS and Xcode on the same day and Xamarin a diff day."

Apple is just... When you're not on their golden iOS path they break thinks horribly with every release. Each time we need to address our build systems and practices and see why our shell scripts broke, why our cc workflows broke, why our interaction with the OS's cert store broke, etc.

Xamarin has made the perhaps-bad but surely unavoidable decision of building their iOS house on shifting sands. I get frustrated when iOS developers don't acknowledge this and act like everyone should be 100% onboard with every OS and XCode update instantly.

I usually wait months before upgrading, myself. I've never had anything but trouble trying to be on the cutting edge for what amounts to almost no features or performance updates I care about.

Lucky for me I don't work in .NET applications and when I do I've got access to Project Rider from JetBrains. It's a godsend. It's alpha-version is millions of more times stable then VS2015 and Xam are. There isn't even a competition. If I was a C# dev I'd kill to get Rider since it's amazing.