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Agree the UI story has been rough. .NET MAUI seems promising, yes?

Outside of JavaScript, what other (good) multi platform UI frameworks are out there? And I’m hesitant to call JS good, with the amount of slow, laggy, resource intensive apps I’ve come across.

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FreePascal with Lazarus is fantastic. It is so dead simple to use, and mostly just works (e.g. coding up an app on windows, opening it on Linux and hit the compile button, and Done!)

Compared to most prominent JS platforms, WinForms or WPF are awesome. We just got used to the sheer complexity and dev cycle of HTML, CSS, JS and JS UI frameworks especially.

Not that I would not agree that the Windows UI space is a mess but it is rarely about the tech but the management of it.

Should be possible to write fast Electron apps with Svelte, Solid or maybe Imba no?

.NET MAUI seems promising unless you're a VB developer.

The writing has been on the wall for VB.Net for a long time now.

Only due to mismanagement and apathy by Microsoft. It could and should be as popular as Python is today.

Why not just learn C#? Same framework, tooling, target, libraries etc, just a different syntax.

I know C#, and I've worked in it. I prefer VB. (To be specific, beyond language differences, VB's app platform is inherently faster to work in, a lot of it is just built-in that take a lot of scaffolding to replicate in C#. You'd be surprised how much of VB isn't directly available to C# developers.)

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