Is Microsoft ditching MAUI?

What's your take on MAUI's future?

  • Don't know, don't care

    Votes: 15 55.6%

  • Do care, but I dunno

    Votes: 4 14.8%

  • It has a bright future ahead

    Votes: 2 7.4%

  • It's probably going to crash and burn

    Votes: 6 22.2%
  • Total voters
    27
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So much promise... but a growing set of bugs. What's the consensus regarding MAUI, is it getting read to go the way of Silverlight?

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Adequate team size and financial commitment from Microsoft to fix the >2500 bugs (& growing) in MAUI (or at least get the most basic core functions like Border/Editor/Image/Layout working) · dotnet maui · Discussion #17917

Description Advantages of MAUI I am new to MAUI (only been here 3 weeks) but I already think it is a fantastic system. I was previously working in systems that are completely disconnected from the ...
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From my point of view, I do not want to build UI's in C#, even though I love C# and .NET and would not choose a different backend technology

Which means I don't care about MAUI or Blazor.

Similar to how I have zero interest in Node because I have no desire to write JS/TS on the backend (BFF/remix excluded)
 
Maui did seem to have a bright future a couple years back. I've not seen much adoption though around the projects I've worked. I think Flutter made a huge impact, especially with Ubuntu backing Flutter for their desktop apps development.
 
_kabal_ said:
From my point of view, I do not want to build UI's in C#, even though I love C# and .NET and would not choose a different backend technology

Which means I don't care about MAUI or Blazor.

Similar to how I have zero interest in Node because I have no desire to write JS/TS on the backend (BFF/remix excluded)
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What’s your go to for UI?
 
lkpat said:
What’s your go to for UI?
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On a serious note, we were React and recently started using Next.JS. Still, I have just started a MAUI course because I believe having the knowledge of various languages and framewoeks even if you never get to write an app/system with it, is still beneficial.
 
Was considering learning MAI but it's been slow to take traction in the past few years. Flutter and Dart for now.
 
I was exited for blazor but reading about hot relaod issues etc on Reddit constantly, makes me steer away. Curiously flutter wasm is also coming.
 
BeerIsNotGood... said:
someone missed the layoffs..
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Layoffs were across the board, all teams affected. If Google drops Flutter as a project (doubtful - but sh*t happens), I'm sure it will become a community project as it is all open source. But ja, interesting times
 
MAUI is BAAAAAAD, whether it dies or not, I have made a choice to move away from any Microsoft based mobile dev. Terrible migration paths, they ditched Xamarin Forms before MAUI was nearly ready enough so now we are sitting with unsupported Xamarin Forms, which we need to hack to get working or be forced to move over to MAUI which isn't mature / stable enough to trust.

We are looking into Flutter and Dart, but now that I see this thread and some comments, should I be worried? Really not looking at moving to a new platform and/or language again soon after this move is made.
 
Chris_H said:
MAUI is BAAAAAAD, whether it dies or not, I have made a choice to move away from any Microsoft based mobile dev. Terrible migration paths, they ditched Xamarin Forms before MAUI was nearly ready enough so now we are sitting with unsupported Xamarin Forms, which we need to hack to get working or be forced to move over to MAUI which isn't mature / stable enough to trust.

We are looking into Flutter and Dart, but now that I see this thread and some comments, should I be worried? Really not looking at moving to a new platform and/or language again soon after this move is made.
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ReactNative? at least then you learn some transferable skills (Typescript, React).

Obviously a good developer can change language/tech quite easily, but there is not future in Dart outside of Flutter ‍:shrug
 
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