I wonder what would be the developer experience be like when developing a cross platform app: .NET vs Flutter
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Related: check out this thread (at /c/dotnet) for opinions on Avalonia: https://programming.dev/post/38851
I don't have any experience, but have been looking into this space as well. Currently we have MAUI, Uno Platform and Avalonia UI. It looks like Microsoft is putting all their weight behind MAUI and for that reason only, I would expect it to win in the long run.
I'm learning PWA (Progressive Web Apps) which is just HTML+JS web page installable on Android. About MAUI I've tried last year and felt it's growing technology and difficult to layout UI parts (tend to force WinUI flavor on default).
I really like the idea of Blazor PWAs. Blazor just makes so much more sense to me rather than dealing with anything related to XAML/WPF/UWP. Developing with those just always felt so clunky and "anti-orthogonal" (best way I can describe it) to me. I felt I always had to remember really specific syntax and patterns to do things different things related to layout, databinding and styling. So much faffing about with custom ValueConverters and templates for something that Blazor can just do seamlessly with HTML. It all seemed so unintuitive compared to how Blazor really naturally extends HTML though C# without having to even touch javascript or its assorted frameworks and their additional hooha and complexity. Plus, if you wanted, you can take existing sites and HTML templates and fairly easily turn them into C# apps and give them access to .NET libraries.
Maui and Avalonia is good...