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There is no absolute answer for everyone.
My choice was Xamarin, and now it’s latest version, MAUI (which is not new, just a major next version of Xamarin renamed for marketing purposes).
The main benefit for me is being able to use a language (C#) and a framework (.NET 7) that is portable across OSs, same as used in the cloud/server apps that a mobile app will likely use, and is open-source and been around 20+ years.
If you design correctly, some C# libraries you write are also usable with MAUI.
Blazor for use making apps outside of web apps is promising, but IMHO, needs another year or so to catch up to MAUI.
My preference today is MAUI for native mobile apps and Blazor for web apps. All use C# and .NET 7.
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None of the above I'm sorry to say.
I would make all future applications using pure HTML5 backed either by Typescript, C#/WASM/Blazor, or pure JavaScript. Then distribute it across platforms as a PWA or a Blazor hybrid app. You're then dependent on no one company's whims and shortcomings.
5 years ago I would've been horrified by this suggestion but I'm a convert now. Microsoft has proven itself completely inept at native frontend and without web support MAUI can't be taken seriously anyway. Google Flutter is interesting but requires Dart which makes porting existing apps impossible and limits the available open source ecosystem severely.
Other options -
Uno is too slow on the web.
Avalonia is a maybe but last I checked has no web support.
Here's the bottom line. No one has a strong commercial interest in making a true write-once-run-everywhere ecosystem. For anyone who has it - like Microsoft with Office or Google with GSuite - it's a competitive advantage and they're not gonna give it away. Whatever they do give away will be made by a different team than their commercial products and be inferior and watered down.
If you want something done right you have to do it yourself.
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Xamarin is behind the curve.
Slack, and vs code, are both packaged/written in Electron. No need to look any further.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I looked into using Xamarin for a mobile app, but if storyboarding is required (something I desired), I would still need a Mac and Xedit for it. SO, I thought, what's the point? and coded the app native for Android in Kotlin and iPhone in Swift. I am guessing that .Net MAUI has the same problem.
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This is from the CodeProject insider. Probably most interesting for those that are old enough to be even close to remembering some of this
Building a DOS ChatGPT client in 2023 - YKM's Corner on the Web[^]
Now I didn't actually consider the software in the article much of a challenge. I can see the lack of threads as a bit of problem but back then Windows 3.1 ran on an event loop so one just needs to be careful about blocking for too long.
But what really amazed me was that there was a network card that would work.
Also kind of amusing at the end though where the author asks ChatGPT to write the code for this project and it says it can't. Guess it won't be replacing programmers yet.
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jschell wrote: But what really amazed me was that there was a network card that would work.
Doom was a DOS game, and worked over LANs. It should come as no surprise that some NICs worked under DOS.
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I think he wondered that a current generation NIC has DOS driver.
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I used to run a 10baseT 3com NIC in a dos machine back in the day. 486DX2/66 IIRC.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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It's Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I knew someone would have made the roll pun. I just knew it.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: I knew someone would have made the roll pun. I just knew it.
It was not a question of "IF", more a question of "when" 
M.D.V. 
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Argh! It's way over there under the sink!
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I was thinking more along the lines of a Danish.
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Kolaches are a Czech tradition here in TX. They are buns stuffed with just about everything, fruit, meat, vegetables so a BLT in a bun is not far fetched.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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From tomorrow on I'll be system architect (together with a colleague), trying to bring order into the chaos of non existant processes and a lot of different solutions for similar problems in our division, and on the same time trying to reduce complexity, make everything a bit more robust and less "manual" while bringing us into the future.
Whish me luck
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Best of luck! 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Thanks Carlo
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Don't try and do everything all at once. One bite at a time.
Pick some low-hanging fruit to start to
- get some quick successes and impress the higher ups
- test and fine tune YOUR processes
Involve the people that will be using your solutions.
If you can steer them to the 'correct' solution and make them think it was their idea, you will get buy-in a lot faster.
"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."
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Chris is reading, you know?
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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He knows. He calls it "Managing Up" 
"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."
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Matthew Dennis wrote: Don't try and do everything all at once. One bite at a time.
Yeah, Luckily I already learned this (the hard way). I hope to not repeat the same error.
#1 - Get knowledge about the current status quo, there is a lot of variance and I don't know every permutation
#2 - Trying to get a good feedback from management about which direction do they want to take
#3 - Organize things in "can die a natural death", "it needs a double tap", "we need this and we have to take it with us"
#4 - Once the system has been cleaned up from zombies and not needed stuff, start working out how to improve it
#5 - We'll see when we come there...
Matthew Dennis wrote: Involve the people that will be using your solutions.
That's something I have always tried when programming PLCs for others, nobody know the machine better that the one using it everyday.
Matthew Dennis wrote: If you can steer them to the 'correct' solution and make them think it was their idea, you will get buy-in a lot faster.
That's something I know, but that I don't master (yet)
Thanks for the tips, Matthew
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Thanks Mike
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