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How/why is this different to MAUI?

It's more comparable to Flutter than MAUI. Since all the controls are custom rendered to be "look-a-likes" rather than genuinely native. Naturally, the look-a-like approach to cross-platform apps does have some drawbacks - namely that it is always lagging behind the bleeding edge of the native platform controls. But for certain categories of app this is not a major issue.

One might argue that after Win 9x, the native is not important anymore - everyone does custom UIs anyway.

Uno can build for Linux desktop, while .NET MAUI currently does not support Linux

.NET MAUI is an evolution of Xamarin.Forms developed by Microsoft. The Uno Platform and also Avalonia are third-party solutions. All three use slightly different flavors of XAML, to my knowledge.

MAUI looks promising. I just hope that microsoft address the crazy anount of bugs that xamarin had. To this day I’m still not sure if they’re lack of resource or prioritisation for xamarin.

Interested to hear what bugs you found....

I have a pretty non trivial commercial app in Xamarin Forms (currently just Android) and we really never found any showstoppers. (Talks to other devices via usb/ble, talks to the cloud and does realtime display state and live mapping etc.)

Have a look at this: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/109

if you have been following bugs in xamarin you would have known. It's good that you haven't encounter any that's blocking, but for those who did it's very frustrating

it seems like it's catching up to MAUI as well, look at the number of issues that's growing for the past 4 months...

I believe MAUI does not do webapps either.

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