few months ago I tried to wrap up a MAUI PoC app from a more junior coworker, who failed to deliver anything working after weeks of trying.
Then I spent two weeks on trivial shit and stuff you expect to work by default (pull to refresh, video streaming, video in list view etc.)
After two weeks of stress, failure and dozen of known issues on GitHub with tons of frustrated developers [1], I rewrote the whole poc in flutter in 3 days.
Keep in mind this was a simple app with two screens and sign in/sign up - the only thing mildly technicall was a list view with videos (video feed).
Literally nothing in MAUI worked as advertised and their showoff apps are ridiculous. The build process takes forever and breaks randomly, iteration is slow and debugging breaks all the time.
This is the exact same experience I've had with Xamarin 5-6 years ago.
Any imaginary gain you think you'll have by being able to share code between client and server will be offset many times by having a sane/working dev environment like flutter (working framework, fast iteration) and the language isn't that far off from c#.
Then I spent two weeks on trivial shit and stuff you expect to work by default (pull to refresh, video streaming, video in list view etc.)
After two weeks of stress, failure and dozen of known issues on GitHub with tons of frustrated developers [1], I rewrote the whole poc in flutter in 3 days.
Keep in mind this was a simple app with two screens and sign in/sign up - the only thing mildly technicall was a list view with videos (video feed).
Literally nothing in MAUI worked as advertised and their showoff apps are ridiculous. The build process takes forever and breaks randomly, iteration is slow and debugging breaks all the time.
This is the exact same experience I've had with Xamarin 5-6 years ago.
Any imaginary gain you think you'll have by being able to share code between client and server will be offset many times by having a sane/working dev environment 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...