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It still bothers me that they choose to call Xamarin Forms successor .Net Maui. There is already a project for building user interface called Maui (mauikit.org)
by ognarb 5y ago
It still bothers me that they choose to call Xamarin Forms successor .Net Maui. There is already a project for building user interface called Maui (mauikit.org) and now because of that some Microsoft partners are starting to reuse the name (e.g. mauikit.com)
- nine_k 5y agoI liked the name Xamarin because it's unique. OTOH Maui is a well-known toponym, reused as a name of many other things. I really dislike this name overloading. It hampers search. It adds no value. It leads to name clashes. I much appreciate unique names without much pre-loaded meaning, like Google, or Kodak, or Inkscape, or Linux, or Debian. Apparently coming up with such a name is hard, though, especially because of a desire to come up with an excellent pun / acronym, and because of the corporate desire to play safe and use a tried name.