Comment by emodendroket

> I guess the whole point is to write cross-platform code, but is the .NET environment that much better than Swift/Xcode?

Well, probably it is better if you have (say) a company full of people who know how to write C# but have never used Swift. And the whole write once run anywhere thing is nice (sure, native apps "feel" better, but if there are no native apps I'd rather have a Java version than nothing).