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Field notes from 35+ years in the trenches. Mostly C# / .NET / Avalonia, some Rust, rants about OOP, retro emulation, and whatever weird thing has me up at 2am.

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0x14 2026.05.19 Is MAUI another Silverlight? A retrospective on every Microsoft UI framework, and why developers are tired Microsoft has shipped more UI frameworks than any other vendor in computing history. Win32, MFC, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, Xamarin.Forms, UWP, WinUI, MAUI, Blazor Hybrid. Each launched with a deck full of reasons this one was the future. Some are still here. Most are not. The real question is not whether MAUI is the next Silverlight; it is why a working developer in 2026 should ever again bet on a Microsoft UI framework as a strategic choice. winforms wpf silverlight maui uwp winui xamarin blazor avalonia dotnet microsoft software-history opinion 13′