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Though I cannot give an official statement, Microsoft has a long history of abandoning open-source projects once the employees working on them get bored, switch

Though I cannot give an official statement, Microsoft has a long history of abandoning open-source projects once the employees working on them get bored, switch jobs, or move to other roles. It also doesn't help that the iOS Bridge wasn't used that much, didn't bolster UWP adoption (we all know how that went - developers were completely apathetic at best), and never supported Swift IIRC, only Objective-C applications. With more applications using Swift in part or even fully, and UWP being dead, and Windows 11 supporting Android apps on the Amazon App Store, the bridge is dead without major investments which Microsoft appears to have no interest in pursuing.

trinovantes 4y ago
It's funny when you look at the contribution graph and see that most of the activity happened in the typical tenure length at tech companies (1-2 years) https://github.com/microsoft/WinObjC/graphs/contributors https://github.com/microsoft/WinObjC/graphs/contributors
- behnamoh 4y ago
  Interesting insight! Thought I wonder how these open-source projects get maintained at tech companies? Is it up to the developers to decide if they want to contribute, or does the management set plans for these things? In the former case, your conclusion seems true.
eek2121 4y ago
I mean, if you actually knew what was going on at Microsoft, you'd understand. I don't work for them, don't use their tech stack (not since the 2000s at least), however even I know they've moved to a cross platform UI/UX (.NET MAUI) framework. See the top comment on this post. EDIT: This move was actually made due to direct feedback from .NET being open sourced. 1 API, 1 way of building things, multiple platforms.