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Xamarin for iOS and Android just works…

Maui on the other hand is a turd. It’s such a pain to work with, workloads just plain suck. And if you install . Net 7 and your project targets 6, It will download .net 7 workloads and fail to build. Then 8 comes out and same problem. Have to pin the SDK.

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And by the time Maui starts to mature and work, they will announce a new framework and the cycle starts again. I still don’t understand why they couldn’t keep working on WPF instead of cranking out a new framework every three years.

It's because WPF was too heavily tied to Windows technology.

Only because they didn't want to put the work to make it portable, as proven by Avalonia folks.

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