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.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

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303 points vyrotek | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 22:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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lpln3452 ◴[12 Nov 25 03:45 UTC] No.45896187[source]▶
If it runs on Avalonia anyway why choose MAUI? If you have the option just use Avalonia. MAUI is unfinished and its docs is awful.

Do you want to build an app using MAUI? Unless you build an app that barely deviates from the template, expect to desperately search through decade old Xamarin documentation and figure out the details through painful trial and error.

Good luck.

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1. munchler ◴[12 Nov 25 06:11 UTC] No.45896875[source]▶
This is what mystifies me about this announcement. Avalonia already works fine on Linux, allowing anyone to build a cross-platform .NET GUI application.

MAUI is supposed to be a wrapper around native widgets. The fact that they had to use Avalonia under the covers to get it to work on Linux seems to defeat the point. (Avalonia is a complete UI toolkit, like Qt or Flutter, that owns the entire stack from XAML to pixels.)

https://avaloniaui.net/maui-compare