I doubt it's going to be a first-class citizen like Java anytime soon.

there is a lot of Innovation going on, with the new open source .NET. the CoreRT[1] project compiles C#->C++->Machine code for any platform, including ARM. and Samsung has been a big contributor to make that happen. and today during the Connect() event, they announced that every Xamarin forms app will run on Tizen[2].

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/corert [2] https://www.tizen.org/blogs/dh0922/2016/tizen-.net-developer...