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dcveloper ◴[] No.42184887[source]
Is this a Xamarin successor?
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cotti ◴[] No.42185103[source]
It's one of the main players in the non-Microsoft cross-platform UI toolkits focusing on .NET, alongside AvaloniaUI.

The Xamarin successor is MAUI, which is the MS offer in the field.

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1. solarkraft ◴[] No.42190963[source]
Has MAUI managed to actually succeed Xamarin? From what I remember from a few years ago they kind of botched the launch and it failed to even fully replace it.
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2. JamesSwift ◴[] No.42200146[source]
Xamarin is officially in End Of Support. But Maui has definitely missed the mark. I was deep in it around net6/net7 timeframe, and net8 was supposed to be a big step forward, but they burned a lot of good will with the rollout. I saw a lot of hubris not only from the Maui side, but also from the .net ecosystem as a whole. Specifically whoever was pushing workloads. The pain points around that were huge sources of unnecessary friction, on top of the really buggy initial versions of Maui.