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.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

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What it is

.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

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HN mentions by year50 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-05-19 15:28:10 UTC to 2026-05-30 16:45:53 UTC.

0510152020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 5 submissions, 3 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 2 submissions, 13 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 11 mentions; 2 submissions, 9 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 2 submissions, 7 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC853
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15213
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1129
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC927
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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sandreas·Nov 9, 2022
Indeed, which is kind of ridiculous. Additionally, it's build on Xamarin (the buggy cross platform framework) instead using the pretty usable WPF / XAML approach, they had to build something great. This also means you get bad performance through an additinal layer of rendering engine instead of direct rendering like in flutter (see https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/7212) I, personally, prefer AvaloniaUI, a community driven project that uses the same rendering engine as flutter, which gains some pretty good traction atm. Although I doubt that C# will be anything more than niche for REAL UI development in the future. Even Microsoft does not use it for their apps (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32578178)... :-/
In .NET MAUI for .NET 7 General Availability
n8cpdx·Aug 24, 2022
Microsoft stopped development (more or less) around May 2020 to focus on MAUI, which was released in November 2020. Actually it wasn’t - MAUI wasn’t released until May 2022, tooling was just released July 2022 for Windows, and VS for Mac with proper support has yet to be released. If you’re used to command line that may not seem like a big deal, but the whole point of the .NET ecosystem is that you have a rich set of tools that saves time and enhances developer productivity. So as for why Xamarin wasn’t discussed for the last few years, it’s probably because Microsoft put it in a coma for 2 years. I was hoping MAUI would fix a lot of the quality issues, but like any big rewrite, it seems to have traded one set of problems for another. The developer experience is better, but there are lots of bugs in basic functionality that make it diffic
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ult to use. https://github.com/dotnet/maui/labels/t%2Fbug I don’t think Microsoft has enough engineers assigned to this project to make it successful. If you don’t care about the quality of your app (e.g. your a corporate form developer and don’t care about your users) MAUI is a great choice. But if you don’t care about the UX, web technologies are almost certainly a better choice. As for native desktop, you’d have to be really stupid to choose WinUI or UWP, unless the point of the app is to be a WinUI or UWP demo. WPF is fine, but then why on earth would you choose that over electron or WebView2, which solves some of the resource problems from pure electron. All of this is coming from someone whose entire career is built on .NET client technology… I was really hoping (and still hope) for a turnaround. I bet big on Xamarin being the right approach; I still think it is, but Microsoft really dropped the ball since the acquisition.
In Ask HN: Are you using .NET to write cross-platform desktop or mobile apps?

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