Mobile Lead on why MAUI is still a no-no

One day I found this comment, made by Mobile Lead.

Avoid MAUl like the plague. It has terrible performance, open bugs that the team hasn’t solved since Xamarin Forms, terrible documentation. The tools don’t work. Compilation literally can take up to 30 minutes for a basic app.

The ecosystem is terrible. Hot reload has essentially never worked for any of our developers, it turns off and on and you can’t trust it. Microsoft is not putting in the level of effort into the platform that they need to make it viable. I run the Mobile apps department for my company. We have migrated Xamarin Forms application to MAUl. I recently calculated the amount of unproductive hours last year spent on MAUl slowdowns, or lack of good hot reload. We came in around 400 hours in last year on a single application.

That is insane.

Unless you plan on building the most simple of applications, like a counter app. Don’t use MAUl. I encourage you to try both platforms for 1 day, and you will quickly learn that MAUl is an immature and difficult product.

Xamarin Forms before it, was no different and quite literally the underlying framework for MAUl is Xamarin Forms, they just slapped a different name on it because the changes they had made weren’t compatible.

by iungertime

And you know what? I am not suprised at all. I was in migration process from Xamarin. We finally forgot about migrating to MAUI and changed to React Native after 2 months.