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IMO they need to realize the common denominator of all these failed and deprecated frameworks is the very thing they've desperately clung onto over all these false starts... and that is XAML.

Get rid of it.

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XAML is good. It's very easy to build interface by nesting components then styling it if needed, and doing data binding. All the web alternatives are harder to use and came 10-20 years later.

XAML is why I’ll never write a Desktop App with .NET, who’s been unable to rid themselves from it.

React, Vue, Svelte as well as Flutter & SwiftUI all implement different but vastly more productive reactive dev models.

MAUI will not be resurrecting .NET Desktop Apps which have been on decline since WPF. Blazor Desktop Apps might, anything XAML won’t.

XAML is the only thing I was ever able to write a complex layout in, run the app, and see it look exactly as what I intended on the first attempt. That would meet my definition of productivity.

For example, my experience with CSS has been the opposite of that. F5 a million times before the layout works the way I want it to. Sometimes even googling how to do create some type of layout because I can't think of it on my own.

XAML is good for structure, same way HTML is. But by god is styling it a major PITA of boilerplate nesting hell

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