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I've had completely the opposite experience. Have worked on several medium-to-very large Xamarin projects (4 developers up to 60 developers) and rarely have I seen code sharing drop below 50%, with the sweet spot being around 60%.

2 years ago, Xamarin was buggy as hell. Today, (IMHO) it's quite stable.

Edit: downvoted for sharing my experience? Stay classy, HN.

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Can you elaborate on what kind of apps are you developing and where you are getting good reuse? My apps are generally heavy on the UI and moderate data and I'm wondering where the sweet spot is.

I've been doing Xamarin for about 6 months and I get most of me reuse in services. Sure, manipulating the UI is mostly native code but the rest can be reused such as the DB layer, API layer, and anywhere else you have business logic.

Enterprise mobility mostly; moderately heavy on UI (UI standards in the enterprise are rising, particularly for mobile users), but I generally find the bulk of reuse is in workflow, local persistence/offline storage + data synchronization + security/encryption + enterprise infrastructure integration / cloud & "other" services integration (e.g. CMSs, CRMs), etc.

I had no issues two years ago; what was buggy? We wrote very large apps in it without problems (besides the normal crap one has with builds now and then).

Can I ask the products you have worked on with Xamarin?

NDA'd, but I'm focused mostly on enterprise mobility

Does your NDA permit you to tell others that you have an NDA?

/s silicon valley reference

I will see if I can get my contract amended to explicitly permit that ;)

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