alt Hacker NewsYes, it is in the Visual part of Visual Studio that Microsoft has gone off the rails. .Net (C#) is a good development language but Windows Forms being the most usable GUI framework is far from where Microsoft should have gone.
Yes, it is in the Visual part of Visual Studio that Microsoft has gone off the rails. .Net (C#) is a good development language but Windows Forms being the most usable GUI framework is far from where Microsoft should have gone.
WPF was full of footguns and rigid organization to alleviate said footguns. MVVM (Model, View, Viewmodel) architecture was so much boilerplate and toil to work with. It feels like the advent of Electron-based desktop apps caused MS to simply give up on the space.
I don't have too much experience with MAUI so I can't comment on that.
Blazor's initial bundle sizes made it quite difficult to consider as an option for web applications, despite the ability to share code between frontend and backend.
I still feel like the ASP.NET + Frontend SPA story has a long way to go compared to what is available in the fullstack typescript ecosystem right now. Shared typings between the frontend and backend via tools like tRPC/ oRPC, or full RSC/SSR frameworks like Next and TanStack start are just so much more ergonomic, but the backend TS story, especially in data access and ORMs is so much worse compared to Entity Framework. Prisma is abysmally slow, and Drizzle is getting there but IMO nothing right now compares to the power and DX of EF Core + Linq methods.