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You've got good reasons for not trusting any .NET GUI libraries from Microsoft, I don't either since they all ultimately end up abandoned however that doesn't d
by mythz 3y ago
You've got good reasons for not trusting any .NET GUI libraries from Microsoft, I don't either since they all ultimately end up abandoned however that doesn't definitely doesn't apply to their premier Server frameworks which enjoys first class long lasting support.
Razor didn't go anywhere, it's still the predominant language .NET Server HTML Views is written in since its release in 2010, whether it's in MVC, Razor Pages or even Blazor which enjoys the same familiar statically-typed syntax with great tooling and high performance compiled views.
There's no chance that's going to happen with Blazor, which has become the future of .NET Web App development, it's a unique technology that's highly versatile whose multiple rendering options supports a wide number of different use-cases that's enjoyed by most of .NET developers.
Personally I think it's a fresh of breath air after several years of fragile npm SPA development with broken upgrades stemming from its 100s of deps of varying quality and uncoordinated releases. All I liked from SPAs is its fast navigation, but we also get that from Blazor's Enhanced navigation without SPA complexity, heavy client state, maintaining client side routing, poor SEO, large complex builds, etc.
- JackMorgan 3y agoIt's a bold claim to say that the team that produced a half dozen failures in a row has "no chance" of producing another failure. I will set a calendar reminder for five years "is Blazor still around" and I'm pretty confident the result will be "well yes but it's terrible for these reasons, but this new library Tazor is the future of .NET web UI and it's not going anywhere!"
- mythz 3y agoThat's not all from the same team, Microsoft is a 2T company with software in every industry. Their GUI suffered through lack of investment and neglect. Their Web Server frameworks are producing software running on their cloud, Windows servers and infrastructure products like SQL Server, all enjoying multi-billion dollar businesses. Extrapolating abandonment of Windows GUI software with poor business models, with cross-platform libraries running on growing revenue centers is foley, I'll happily take any "5 year Blazor" bet.
- switch007 3y ago"Tazor", ohh! I appreciate a good swipe at their intense fetish of confusing naming