I was looking at the newly announced VS Code extension for .NET 8 MAUI development and that piqued my interest again in MAUI. (Also the in-progress performance metrics of the .NET 8 preview using .NET NativeAOT versus classic Mono AOT are fascinating.)
The stuff I've been directly building in the last few years has just been PWA/WebView [Ionic's Capacitor], because web stack is reliable and even more "single development platform", but I've been keeping something of an eye on MAUI in case it grows up into something great. The newly announced VS Code support helps a lot, especially because that gives you a consistent IDE across Windows, Linux, and macOS. (Which can be important if you are targeting iOS because you have to have at least some macOS time, regardless of what you prefer as your main development environment. In this case, VS Code is much more consistent cross-platform than the odd differences between Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac, despite the shared brand name of all three.)
The value proposition here is great...if you're living in 2016. But that framework ship has sailed. People already have years of experience deploying React (Native) targeting all those platforms and the web. Competition is great, but this new UI framework will join the same graveyard of all Microsoft's other similar attempts.
JavaScript will eat the world. At least Microsoft saved us somewhat by inventing TypeScript.
You can have JavaScript in MAUI. It's just as good a WebView host as anything else can be. I've seen plenty of "Blazor in MAUI" demos. (Maybe too many, as something of a sceptic about Blazor and its dumb brand name.)
MAUI is the "new brand on the street", but it's mostly just the latest revision of Xamarin's old stuff in a fancy new package and the option to call parts of itself in .NET now "System". There are people that already have years of experience deploying Xamarin stuff that (I hear) happily transitioned over to MAUI. (Sure, there's also plenty of people that think MAUI is too different from Xamarin and somehow killed their Xamarin puppy, because people will always hate any and all backwards compatibility breaks and semver MAJOR releases.)
I was looking at the newly announced VS Code extension for .NET 8 MAUI development and that piqued my interest again in MAUI. (Also the in-progress performance metrics of the .NET 8 preview using .NET NativeAOT versus classic Mono AOT are fascinating.)
The stuff I've been directly building in the last few years has just been PWA/WebView [Ionic's Capacitor], because web stack is reliable and even more "single development platform", but I've been keeping something of an eye on MAUI in case it grows up into something great. The newly announced VS Code support helps a lot, especially because that gives you a consistent IDE across Windows, Linux, and macOS. (Which can be important if you are targeting iOS because you have to have at least some macOS time, regardless of what you prefer as your main development environment. In this case, VS Code is much more consistent cross-platform than the odd differences between Visual Studio and Visual Studio for Mac, despite the shared brand name of all three.)