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.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

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304 points vyrotek | 1 comments | 11 Nov 25 22:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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js4ever ◴[11 Nov 25 23:39 UTC] No.45894426[source]▶
Too little, too late. Desktop apps are mostly dead.
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1. LeFantome ◴[12 Nov 25 06:22 UTC] No.45896926[source]▶
MAUI is first and foremost a mobile UI framework. It was built for iOS and Android. The desktop is added on as a bonus so that you can target macOS and Windows as well.

If you are building a Windows desktop application though, Microsoft does not want you to use MAUI. You use MAUI because iOS and Android are your top platforms and you want to target macOS and Windows without writing dedicated applications.

Linux has always been missing. This Avalonia port fills that gap.

You would not target the web with MAUI either. I guess "you can" now because WASM is one of the platforms that Avalonia supports. Again, I guess you might if you already have a MAUI app and do not want to create one for the web. But you would never set out to create a MAUI app for the web.