CakePHP vs Xamarin: What are the differences?
CakePHP: The Rapid Development Framework for PHP. CakePHP makes building web applications simpler, faster, while requiring less code. A modern PHP 7 framework offering a flexible database access layer and a powerful scaffolding system; Xamarin: Create iOS, Android and Mac apps in C#. Xamarin’s Mono-based products enable .NET developers to use their existing code, libraries and tools (including Visual Studio*), as well as skills in .NET and the C# programming language, to create mobile applications for the industry’s most widely-used mobile devices, including Android-based smartphones and tablets, iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
CakePHP and Xamarin are primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" and "Cross-Platform Mobile Development" tools respectively.
"Open source" is the primary reason why developers consider CakePHP over the competitors, whereas "Power of c# on mobile devices" was stated as the key factor in picking Xamarin.
CakePHP is an open source tool with 7.9K GitHub stars and 3.4K GitHub forks. Here's a link to CakePHP's open source repository on GitHub.
According to the StackShare community, Xamarin has a broader approval, being mentioned in 75 company stacks & 66 developers stacks; compared to CakePHP, which is listed in 66 company stacks and 29 developer stacks.