Comment by reactordev

VS4Mac deserved to die, that was Mono Code aka Xamarin and it was terrible. No offense to Miguel, mono is amazing, but the IDE they made was horrid.

Microsoft was asleep at the wheel the last decade of Ballmer, leaning too heavily on their Xbox Studios and Enterprise Cloud to care about desktops. They gladly let Mac take office share as “no enterprise software developer would ever choose a Mac”. Those famous Mac vs PC ads.

The GUI development story has plagued us for a long time. No one wants to take on the challenge of a unified user interface spec. Why? Because it will always be wrong - ever changing - and a giant suck of corporate resources.

It’s better to let each team think of their own way of doing things. Then, they can choose the best of them and release them as frameworks (WPF) only to be abandoned by the next regime change.

MAUI, UWA, Metro, WPF, all an attempt to save what effort they have made. Ultimately, everyone loves their Electron apps, so HTML has become to new UI paradigm. They move too slowly. Convinced “they know better than you” and will spend the next 5 years hyping up the next XML abomination.