That&#x27;s an unhelpful answer and misleading.<p>React native has a <i>LOT</i> of attention. It has a lot of support. <i>BUT</i> as of this writing if you are developing in corporate IT (meaning possibly running windows 7 systems) you actually <i>CANNOT</i> run react-native tools on windows easily.<p>I&#x27;m currently building an ionic project because I needed a cross-plat mobile app and work with a mix of OSX and windows 7 machines.<p>Now that said, windows 10 systems with the ubuntu emulator should be able to emulate all the calls you need to run react native on windows machines.<p><i>HOWEVER</i> windows 10 bash has not yet implemented all 350 linux system calls (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpdev.uservoice.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;266908-command-prompt-console-bash-on-ubuntu-on-windo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wpdev.uservoice.com&#x2F;forums&#x2F;266908-command-prompt-con...</a>) and there is no guarantee that is bug free.<p>I&#x27;d hate to be 2 months into development to find there are deep internals that block me from using a critical feature.<p>None of this is to say Xamarin doesn&#x27;t have its own baggage.  The reason I web with cordova&#x2F;ionic was for the good of the other developers on my team (html+css+javascript over C#) and, at the time, the additional cost of the Xamarin licenses.<p>I would have given XAMARIN a much closer look if it were bundled with a Visual Studio license, and all things considered, if I were looking today, it might beat out React Native.<p>That said, I <i>do</i> agree that react-native <i>MAY</i> be the way forward in the next generation, but, Xamarin does have more than enough upside to make it a reasonable contender.