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.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

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303 points vyrotek | 9 comments | 11 Nov 25 22:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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mattfrommars ◴[12 Nov 25 00:18 UTC] No.45894761[source]▶
In the .NET ecosystem, I have noticed people to shame .NET MAUI because Microsoft themselves don't use this framework - Microsoft Team is built on Electron and not MAUI.

Why build a product on MAUI when Microsoft aren't too sure about it.

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latentsea ◴[12 Nov 25 01:00 UTC] No.45895144[source]▶
Never build a frontend on a .NET technology. Period. They always end up unsupported in the end. Just use standard web technologies and thank yourself later. I've been a .NET dev for a decade now and that's what I've learnt.
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1. password4321 ◴[12 Nov 25 01:21 UTC] No.45895301[source]▶
Except WinForms, spectacular for Windows-only utility GUIs.
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2. glzone1 ◴[12 Nov 25 04:09 UTC] No.45896304[source]▶
No kidding - kind of wild that winforms is still kind of a gold standard experience today! I actually liked VB Forms - lots of easy rapid application development was possible.
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3. issafram ◴[12 Nov 25 05:31 UTC] No.45896683[source]▶
WPF as well
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4. fuzzzerd ◴[12 Nov 25 06:22 UTC] No.45896925[source]▶
> spectacular

Not exactly the word I'd use, since it really hasn't changed since VB4, but it's definitely reliable and stable.

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5. nxobject ◴[12 Nov 25 06:49 UTC] No.45897084[source]▶
IIRC, because of Wine, Mono has enough of WinForms to make a few things work. But who the hell wants to distribute an application with a Wine runtime?
6. mrweasel ◴[12 Nov 25 08:01 UTC] No.45897488[source]▶
I was going to suggest the same, just use WinForms. It's basically feature complete, and it's going to be the last UI framework Microsoft is going to yank out from beneath you.
7. memsom ◴[12 Nov 25 16:48 UTC] No.45902395[source]▶
WinForms came way after VB4 and it was a .Net only technology.
8. memsom ◴[12 Nov 25 16:50 UTC] No.45902421[source]▶
Delphi was the best RAD tool though. It was native code, not a weird interpreted or jitted app. It could also build to a single exe file. VB struggled with an unwieldy engine for most of its life.
9. memsom ◴[12 Nov 25 16:51 UTC] No.45902431{3}[source]▶
I like WPF and I code with it regularly, but the drag and drop UI builder was the worst aspect of WPF and generated terrible Xaml that was almost impossible to maintain.