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.NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

50 mentions on Hacker News by 42 people: 13 stories, 37 comments · first 2020-05-19 · latest 2026-05-30

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  1. https://github.com/dotnet/maui/wiki/Using-AI-to-Work-on-.NET...
    comment by mattmanser · 2026-05-30 · in Ask HN: What Is the State of App Development in 2026?
  2. 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
  3. …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
  4. …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
  5. …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
  6. …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
  7. …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
  8. 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
  9. …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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. …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)
  13. …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
  14. …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?
  15. …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?
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. …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
  19. …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
  20. …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
  21. …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?
  22. MAUI, maybe? https://github.com/dotnet/maui
    comment by T-A · 2021-11-08 · in .NET 6 Released
  23. …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)
  24. Someday: https://github.com/dotnet/maui
    comment by judge2020 · 2021-09-03 · in Windows 11: a survey of text boxes
  25. 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
  26. …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.
  27. 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
  28. 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
  29. …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
  30. 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
  31. 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
  32. 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?
  33. …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
  34. …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
  35. 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
  36. 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
  37. …of Maui will be community-led instead of Microsoft led like the Windows and MacOS implementations. https://github.com/dotnet/maui
    comment by CSharpRon · 2020-07-08 · in Flutter for Linux