[sreyaNotfilc]

I agree. I just started learning Android development about a month ago with Xamarin C#. Although its in C#, as a .net developer there are so many other things to learn.

Its exciting really. You see similarities and you also see differences. I think this helps more than it hurts since these "new ideas" will help me with the other environment (and vice versa).

This actually got me interested in learning other languages/frameworks (php, haskell, ruby on rails). After I get the hang of Android, I want to play around with an iOS app from scratch. Sure, I could use some conversion software to do this job. But, I'd rather not. I like to understand what's going on under the hood. I guess its the CompSci in me.

I guess what I'm saying is that I think it is so much better to have a universal understanding of these technologies then to blindly stick to one "team".

As an aside...didn't Facebook mentioned they used PHP not because it was "better" but because it happened to be the technology that worked for what they were doing at that time?