CapnAndy posted:

I've got a mobile app to rewrite at work and a really generous deadline, so I figured I'd take time and play with all the new toys, see what they're like. So I made a MAUI/Blazor hybrid app, and... this is a website. This is a literal, css-using, wwwroot-folder-having, website. They've somehow tricked it into running as a desktop or mobile app, but the code itself is pure website.

And I get what Microsoft is going for, right? If they can unify every design case into "just write it in this one language, we'll compile it appropriately for you", everyone's life gets appreciably easier. But it's been a loving decade since I did web development in any major capacity and it's a bit annoying that we've taken in all of web design's weaknesses too and jettisoned strengths of coding for apps, so now the codebehind just plain can't see anything you put on the razor pages, hope you didn't need sender in any of your event args.

Is it known to what degree this is gonna be the way things go in the future? Like, if Microsoft intends to continue the pressure to turn everything into a Blazor app, okay, gently caress it, I'll start learning web design. But if it's not, I... kinda don't want to.