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The fact that they market Xamarin/MAUI as cross platform and Blazer for web, and not use any of their tech to build a cross platform native/web app is laughable
by sivakon 5y ago
The fact that they market Xamarin/MAUI as cross platform and Blazer for web, and not use any of their tech to build a cross platform native/web app is laughable.
- mattferderer 5y agoTypeScript is also there thing. They've been pushing React as well in SharePoint & other areas for quite a few years. Blazor is very new & was considered experimental until recently. It's still fairly bleeding edge. Microsoft started Teams in 2016 & bought Xamarin in 2016. JavaScript developers are also more plentiful than Xamarin I assume. They should choose the best tools for the job, even if it's not there own. - Edit - It looks like WebView2 is a Microsoft thing based on their Chromium browser version. Super common for Microsoft to make multiple competing products that do similar things.
- sivakon 5y agoWord/Excel run natively on Windows and MacOS. Also have a web client for them. How does that justify using web technologies for cross platform development?
- mattferderer 5y agoI believe Word/Excel have a really old code base. The web tech versions of them are very different applications with different feature sets. They're about as similar as VS Code is to Visual Studio. I think Microsoft is trying to move towards a cross platform for everything from what I've seen. They have a ton of legacy stuff though.