xamarin-macios VS alchemy

Xamarin.ios y Xamarin.Mac: Licencia MIT.

Try to build the project for Android and iOS respectively. If you suffered from the iOS build issue Error MT4109: Failed to compile the generated registrar code caused by Xcode 14, you can visit https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/15954 to find the solution. The issue can be fixed by installing xamarin.ios-16.0.0.72.pkg. To run the app on iOS 16, turn on Settings > Privacy & Security > Developer Mode.

See this for more info.

There is nothing planned. Downgrade immediately https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/15954

MAUI on iOS and MacCatalyst use: https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios

You can see in old issues like this how uncertain even the core team was about it. It's not really tenable to fly that blind.

I think they're still doing tooling updates for Xamarin for a while. For one, there are platforms that for now aren't (yet) moving to .NET 6 at all, such as watchOS. And second, they seem to have changed their Apple platforms tooling to basically dual-target Mono (for Xamarin) and .NET 6 (for MAUI).

Microsoft decided not to support the Apple Watch in .NET 6 (https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios/issues/8955), which made me uncertain as to its future on the Apple Watch - I was also interested in learning Swift and SwiftUI.

1) This was started years ago back when SwiftUI had, frankly, a mountain of problems. I originally did the seeds of this work when building out Alchemy, a React clone for cross-platform apps in Rust. I sunset that project due to personal issues in my life at the time (relative dying) which had destroyed my motivation/time. I ultimately chose to extract the codebase and make cacao since it filled a necessary niche in the ecosystem.

Ah, yes - though I think we're still ultimately after the same thing. Cacao, while it tries to unify AppKit/UIKit APIs, more or less treats UIKit APIs as the "blessed" ones. A good example is the ListView component, which pretty much limits an NSTableView to the style and such that you'd find over on UITableView. cacao just has more working AppKit code due to it being originally the basis for alchemy.

Oh cool! Glad to hear it - I experimented with VDOM stuff long ago back in alchemy and considered returning to it at some point, but if someone else does it... well, it'd be hella cool.