I "Vibe" in all three to be honest. I've had good success, the key thing is, and I say this often, you have to think like an architect, and basically tell it how you want something built not just what you want built.
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.
Another reason I've wanted to build one for a while, but no time. There used to be one that was GPL licensed that was even on Debian repos but I forget the name.
They have free community edition. Main restriction seems to be: "If you're an individual, you may use Delphi CE to create apps for your own use and apps that you can sell until your revenue reaches US$5,000 per year."
Imagine if Microsoft spend more attention on making Windows suck less and Azure better, because in my eyes it is not as awful as whatever the heck AWS' dashboard is supposed to be. Azure has a rich set of developer libraries for their offerings, and their dashboard isn't nearly as awful as AWS. I've never used GCP so I can't comment on theirs, or their libraries.
It should really horrify everybody that Microsoft is not investing more into Azure considering they host the worlds most known LLM (and used?).
I don't know why you'd believe they've ever been capable of putting out quality software.
A bug in the software is a bug in the process, and the process is the job of leadership. They've never cared about software quality. They'll put out lots of books about it, lots of talks, lots of claims. But they won't actually put out quality software. It's not in their DNA, never was.
It's not their size nor their age that makes this hard for them. Plenty of larger, older companies put out better product ever day. It's just them. Someone in each size class is the best, and someone else is the worst. MS has been the worst the entire time.
If you have a git repo for anything that's supposed to be an interface to anything, please put one screenshot at the top of your readme. I get that the website has these, but its the best way to let me know more about your product in one shot.
You seem to be underestestimating the laziness of the people, and overestimating their resolve. Angry forks usually don't last, angst doesn't prevent maintenance burnouts.
You underestimate the value that something like uv and company bring to the ecosystem. Given enough time I could have seen it replacing some core utilities, now that its owned by OpenAI I don't see that happening, unless OpenAI "donates" the project but keeps the devs on a payroll.
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