Nice, I love MAUI but hate that it has no support for Linux. The only option I have is Avalonia and Photino. I love .NET but when I want to make a GUI I reach for other languages because Microsoft despite reinventing their .NET GUI stack every few years, they never add Linux support. Personally I prefer to use their built-in stuff as much as possible.
Microsoft's list of abandoned UI libraries says otherwise.
> licensing wouldn't really be an issue for any commercial project
It's MIT licensed. Simpler for commercial use than Qt.
> easy to sell to an employer
That's a tough one. For some reason employers are weird about non-Microsoft dependencies in the .NET space. It makes no sense to me personally. They likely aren't nearly as strict for web or mobile apps. But that'll definitely be a dealbreaker if your employer is like that.
> That's a tough one. For some reason employers are weird about non-Microsoft dependencies in the .NET space. It makes no sense to me personally. They likely aren't nearly as strict for web or mobile apps. But that'll definitely be a dealbreaker if your employer is like that.
We had a vendor go from "this license is fully royalty free" or whatever, to, we need to charge for all devs in your org, to then, for every single user of your app, we want to be paid. Ridiculous. The problem is companies who start getting license cost hungry and wanna squeeze every dollar out of you, when the project you're using it on might not even bring revenue.
> For some reason employers are weird about non-Microsoft dependencies in the .NET space.
UI toolkits are probably the only space where a third-party vendor can challenge the MS. They can just ask the CTO how many unsupported or badly supported frameworks from Microsoft he or she can name.
