As some of you know, my background is .NET, and I’ve been dreaming of a REAL x-platform version of it since, well, forever. I eventually gave up waiting and bought a copy of Xojo in 2019 because I needed to do X-Plat and it’s still the easiest way to do so.
Only now has MS started to take it seriously. BUT…
VS for Mac should not even be called Visual Studio. It bears absolutely no resemblance to the amazing machine that is Visual Studio for Windows. I’d go as far as to say VS for Windows is the best IDE there is. Visual Studio for Mac? Barely an IDE. VS Code is a much better choice for Mac. And yes, Hot Reload is something all IDEs should have. Especially important if they don’t have a visual designer.
SO… They have to figure out how to write Visual Studio in Xamarin/Maui. It’s the only sensible thing to do and what they should have a team doing nothing but this 24/7.
Anyway, I keep trying each build of Maui, and its sadly a complete mess at the moment. Maybe they’ll be able to pull it together, but I fear even Visual Studio 2022 will STILL not be feature-parity X-Plat.
One thing I’ll say about Xojo, they did pay some attention to Apple. Other X-Plats? Not so much.