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

Post by baz00 » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

CoastalCoder wrote: post #25

baz00 wrote: post #10

> "It seems to me that this is the end for Microsoft's mobile team. They do not fix own bugs, they do not respond to the tickets, the even do not review PRs made a year ago" That's always been the case with all of their frameworks. Even if the entire userbase is spitting fire the default position is to double down on whatever stupid thing they're doing or ignoring it. Only time I ever got anything fixed was when I wa…

Since we're talking about GUI frameworks, I wonder how Qt fares in terms of bugs and fixing them.

Post by torginus » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 2:02 PM UTC

jiggawatts wrote: post #5

Three decades of experience talking here: If you don't see a vendor like Microsoft using a GUI framework for at least 50% of their new applications, then you've made a terrible mistake in adopting it yourself. Microsoft uses Google's framework for their own applications: Electron. Yes, you heard me right. Microsoft, a nearly 3 trillion dollar company, uses the framework of a competitor for their own desktop applicati…

Post by thenerdhead » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 2:04 PM UTC

biorach wrote: post #60

thenerdhead wrote: post #42

Title should be "Developer yells at .NET MAUI team and expects to talk to the manager because their bug hasn't been fixed in two years". I hope people can see the hostile working conditions that many in open source have to experience daily. There is no possible way for a small team to scale with the thousands of issues they get and give every single one the same amount of attention. That is why it is so important for…

This is not a typical open source project. The developers are all Microsoft employees who, in theory, are paid to work on MAUI

Post by biorach » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 2:13 PM UTC

thenerdhead wrote: post #65

biorach wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not a typical open source project. The developers are all Microsoft employees who, in theory, are paid to work on MAUI

How does getting paid change things? Many big tech companies "sponsor" OSS in this way and they have project backlogs bigger than the allowed limit on GitHub. https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/9678

Post by zigzag312 » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 2:36 PM UTC

wg0 wrote: post #26

jiggawatts wrote: post #5

Three decades of experience talking here: If you don't see a vendor like Microsoft using a GUI framework for at least 50% of their new applications, then you've made a terrible mistake in adopting it yourself. Microsoft uses Google's framework for their own applications: Electron. Yes, you heard me right. Microsoft, a nearly 3 trillion dollar company, uses the framework of a competitor for their own desktop applicati…

True. Many will dismiss this opinion but that's how it is. The only issues being actively resolved and substantial progress happening is in: CSS - New units, flex, grid, subgrid, animation, new query methods, view transitions. JS - New APIs ranging from cryptography to WebGPU, Web Assembly. If you must give an interface to an application, there's absolutely no match to what web platform can offer in terms of fidelity…