[WoodenChair]

We tried building a greenfield mobile app using Maui because my development partner is a Microsoft tools aficionado. We ran into a big memory leak that was so hard to debug using the primitive tools that it set us back a month. Eventually, we discovered it was internal to Maui (leak caused by a Maui component, not our code) and decided to program native apps instead for the project. Ultimately I think rebuilding as native actually saved us time for the simple app we’re building

[jwells89]

It’s counterintuitive, but yes, depending on the project cross-platform frameworks can actually be harder for small teams or one-person operations to manage well because they increase the number of layers in which bugs and quirks can show up in — instead of just e.g. Mac AppKit and Windows Win32 bugs, you’ve now got to deal with those plus whatever bugs the cross platform framework has.

This is particularly true for projects where the UI is not overly complex (and thus, not where most of your energy is going), in which case it can make more sense to do code sharing in a library that’s pure business logic (no UI) and platform independent.