<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>dreeri</author><text>We have done several high profile cross-platform applications with Xamarin. As a user you can&amp;#x27;t really see the difference while using it. The most noticeable difference is that the app startup time is couple of seconds slower and the application bundle steals at least 10MB of app size. As a programmer the Developer Experience™ is a little rough around the edges with casual bugs. But hey you get to write your core business logic only once and in C#.&lt;p&gt;Here are some of the more visually appealing apps we&amp;#x27;ve made with Xamarin:&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;valopilkkutaksi.fi&amp;#x2F;briefly-in-english&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;valopilkkutaksi.fi&amp;#x2F;briefly-in-english&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.upmmetsani.fi&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.upmmetsani.fi&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[3] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fair.online&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;fair.online&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text><parent_chain><item><author>pgoggijr</author><text>Are there any examples of solid, stable, cross-platform apps developed with Xamarin?  I tried looking at their website, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem possible to tell the difference between apps being tested using Xamarin Test Cloud, and apps developed using the Xamarin Platform.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/microsoft-now-lets-ios-developers-deploy-run-and-test-their-apps-directly-from-windows</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>hart_russell</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve worked on a number of Xamarin apps. You can definitely make stable cross platform apps, it&amp;#x27;s just very tedious; sometimes it requires more effort than developing 2 separate native apps.</text><parent_chain><item><author>pgoggijr</author><text>Are there any examples of solid, stable, cross-platform apps developed with Xamarin?  I tried looking at their website, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem possible to tell the difference between apps being tested using Xamarin Test Cloud, and apps developed using the Xamarin Platform.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/11/microsoft-now-lets-ios-developers-deploy-run-and-test-their-apps-directly-from-windows</url></story>