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comment by mattmanser · 2026-05-30 · in Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?

Actual source (there are many others): https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/29483

comment by kid64 · 2026-03-23 · in MAUI Is Coming to Linux

…them if they can smooth it over, but I can't say I'd willingly rely on this project long term. 1 - https://github.com/dotnet/maui/pull/15612 2 - https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/8191 3 - https://github.com/dotnet/maui/pull/15655 4 -…

comment by skrig · 2025-11-12 · in .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

…MauiKit[0], the cross platform UI toolkit that had the name first[1] [0] https://mauikit.org/ [1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/35

comment by OsrsNeedsf2P · 2025-11-12 · in .NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

…since I'm still within the edit window, the MAUI referenced by the sibling comment is MIT licensed https://github.com/dotnet/maui https://github.com/dotnet/blazor (Apache 2) is marked an archived, and points to…

comment by mdaniel · 2025-09-16 · in Java 25 officially released

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MAUI is a scam

story by lr0 · 2025-03-07 · 0 comments

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Maui multi-platform App UI framework for mobile and desktop

story by andsoitis · 2024-12-28 · 0 comments

…like flutter (working framework, fast iteration) and the language isn't that far off from c#. [1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/8926#issuecomment-1563...

comment by rafaelmn · 2023-11-25 · in Developers are not happy with .NET MAUI, but nobody in the team cares about it

…in the team really uses this thing in production or interacts with the community more of the same https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/17917 https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/15203

comment by yell0wsnow · 2023-11-25 · in Developers are not happy with .NET MAUI, but nobody in the team cares about it

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Developers are not happy with .NET MAUI, but nobody in the team cares about it

story by yell0wsnow · 2023-11-25 · 121 comments

Maui is Open Source, MIT License https://github.com/dotnet/maui .NET is Open Source https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/open-source I do share your skepticism of Microsoft, but it looks like the economics and cash flow dynamics…

comment by kumarvvr · 2023-11-15 · in .NET 8 – MAUI

…YMMV. [0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ [1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just <PublishAot>true</PublishAot> in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)

comment by neonsunset · 2023-11-14 · in .NET 8

While this is the quite endorsed by the community: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/339 I think the fundamental issue is that desktop Linux is way too fragmented. Not only just GTK2/3 and Qt but you have GNOME, KDE, XFCE,…

comment by stevefan1999 · 2023-10-12 · in What's New in Final RC for .NET 8, .NET MAUI, Asp.net Core and EF8

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MSFTbot: “We've moved this issue to the Backlog milestone”

story by nsoonhui · 2023-09-30 · 0 comments

Microsoft has done this before with mauikit and mauilinux: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/35 Unlikely that they even consider checking whether they are stomping across existing names.

comment by ga_to · 2023-03-24 · in LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models

…have specifically acknowledged this and so far there are no plan to support Linux desktop. https://github.com/dotnet/maui/discussions/339

comment by miffy900 · 2023-01-30 · in Swift Achieved Dynamic Linking Where Rust Couldn't (2019)

…through an additinal layer of rendering engine instead of direct rendering like in flutter (see https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/7212 ) I, personally, prefer AvaloniaUI, a community driven project that uses the same rendering engine…

comment by sandreas · 2022-11-09 · in .NET MAUI for .NET 7 General Availability

…is better, but there are lots of bugs in basic functionality that make it difficult to use. https://github.com/dotnet/maui/labels/t%2Fbug I don’t think Microsoft has enough engineers assigned to this project to make it successful. If you…

comment by n8cpdx · 2022-08-24 · in Ask HN: Are you using .NET to write cross-platform desktop or mobile apps?

…tricky because there is no concept of a mouse, so good luck creating a hover effect on your button. https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/3739

comment by n8cpdx · 2022-08-24 · in Ask HN: Are you using .NET to write cross-platform desktop or mobile apps?

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…

comment by robertwt7 · 2022-08-18 · in Uno platform: Build single-codebase applications across all platforms

Check https://avaloniaui.net There's also https://github.com/dotnet/maui from Microsoft but it's not mature yet.

comment by hu3 · 2022-08-16 · in .NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04

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Microsoft attempts to take MAUI name from Blue Systems

story by kkdaemas · 2022-08-12 · 2 comments

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.NET maui: 1558 open issues after declared GA in May

story by hujun · 2022-08-11 · 0 comments

…believe that they may genuinely be changing? well, them not not doing stuff like this for instance: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/35

comment by jcelerier · 2022-06-21 · in Microsoft Donated Money to Gnome: Remember How They Attacked Open Source Before

…all of the announcement posts for every preview milestone release which goes into far more detail: https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by manigandham · 2022-03-13 · in .NET Myths Dispelled

…Microsoft is trying to steal the name MAUI from an existing open source project. Microsoft <3 Linux https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/34

comment by CameronNemo · 2022-02-21 · in Chris Lattner left Swift core team

…MAUI yet? I'm cautiously optimistic, but haven't dug into it. Should be releasing Q2 this year. https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by rozab · 2022-01-21 · in Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?

MAUI, maybe? https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by T-A · 2021-11-08 · in .NET 6 Released

…cross platform years ago but a UI has been missing. They have a cross platform UI project now too https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by alkonaut · 2021-09-09 · in The web is swallowing the desktop whole (2017)

Someday: https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by judge2020 · 2021-09-03 · in Windows 11: a survey of text boxes

There's a new project called MAUI that also handles desktop: https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by manigandham · 2021-06-26 · in Microsoft Teams 2 will use half the memory, dropping Electron for Edge Webview2

…build small, fast desktop cross platform apps with just .NET though, I'd still be interested. [0] https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by wayneftw · 2021-06-25 · in MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.

Microsoft is working on it, it’s called MAUI: https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by manigandham · 2021-06-21 · in Obvious and possible software innovations

Also both in very active development: https://github.com/dotnet/maui https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml (WinUI 3) WinUI 3 includes all of what used to the the UWP controls and Renderer but "lifted and shifted" out of OS updates…

comment by WorldMaker · 2021-06-18 · in .NET 6 Preview 5

…c# ? BTW, there's a very interesting (and amusing) bug that advocated "dumping Maui for Flutter" https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/160

comment by sandGorgon · 2021-04-21 · in .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI

There was a flamewar last year over the naming collision: https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/35 . In the end, Microsoft locked the issue after saying: > Email me david.ortinau@microsoft.com. Stealing is not ok and has not been intended.…

comment by nyanpasu64 · 2021-04-21 · in .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI

They do have a whole section for differences. https://github.com/dotnet/maui#xamarinforms-vs-net-maui If it turns out to be XamarinFroms done well, I can dig it.

comment by jayd16 · 2021-04-20 · in .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI

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.NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI

story by evo_9 · 2021-04-20 · 253 comments

Try some options from dotnet world Https//avaloniaui.net https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by yread · 2021-04-15 · in Ask HN: Best stack for cross-platform desktop app?

…nice to see, that there is effort to improve the developer experience in more than one language. * https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by sandreas · 2021-03-03 · in Icons – Google Fonts

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First class Linux support developed by Microsoft #339

story by JaimeThompson · 2021-02-23 · 0 comments

…Windows has this week Just for informative purposes, it's maui - a cross platform .net core UI. https://github.com/dotnet/maui Currently predicting Nov 2021 (dates may change) > .NET MAUI general availability November 2021

comment by judge2020 · 2021-01-06 · in Wasmer 1.0

Same. At least now there's a promise of cross-platform UI in the form of https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by hu3 · 2020-12-31 · in SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

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.NET Multi-Platform App UI (MAUI)

story by sytelus · 2020-11-10 · 0 comments

well they are working with something called ".net maui" that should be released with 6 https://github.com/dotnet/maui

comment by altrunox · 2020-11-10 · in .NET 5.0

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.NET MAUI: Name Clash with Maui Linux and MauiKit

story by hu3 · 2020-08-13 · 0 comments

…of Maui will be community-led instead of Microsoft led like the Windows and MacOS implementations. https://github.com/dotnet/maui