Xamarin has reached End of Support

It was the first ever offering from them where I could create a new project for mobile and hit f5 and it actually ran :D

It has some obscure bugs during build process (You need to have project in C:/ if you are on Windows), but otherwise it runs fine for Windows and Android. It also runs fine on MacOS, but you need to compile on MacOS as I did not figure out how to emit PKG file on Windows. It also runs fine on XCode iOS emulator, but I don't have iOS device to test on.

In nutshell, I think that MAUI has some pains to get used to, but when you make it working on one platform, it usually works on remaining platforms as well. Only thing which I don't like is HUGE binaries it generates (60-200MB) but I guess that's a price to pay for simple deployment on multiple platforms.

I've been porting a Blazor/.net 8 project (https://interro.bot) to Maui for the past couple months. I just released Android last week, and Mac/iOS is in the pipeline. There are plenty of gotchas and I wouldn't say Maui feels mature yet, but the issues in my case are mostly on the build side. I'm optimistic though, the platform does improve with regular releases, and the end product (once through the build headaches) is solid.

I built an iPad app for a fun little three letter government agency. It wasn't bad at all.

Bitwarden people had some info about it. They decided to make native apps instead

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/1b32bbz/going_na...

It is a complete rewrite with all the caveats it entails.

Plus on Apple platforms it relies on Catalist, while most likely it will never do Linux.

Additionally, now outside of Windows, the best Microsoft can think of is using VSCode, or let JetBrains do the needful.

As such I don't see it to gain adoption beyond the .NET shops that were already deeply invested into Xamarin.

In this case the last E is Evolve. Xamarin got refactored and renamed to Maui.