[highwaylights]

This really seems to be the problem - the developer relations seems to be comprised of non-developers.

The docs are clearly not written by engineers and it really shows.

It’s a shame too - MAUI should be excellent. Best-in-class even. They’ve had the most resources and best tech to throw at the problem and are a distant second at best to React Native. (It might see less use than Flutter these days I’ve no idea).

Also having the C# dev kit for VS Code be non-free is just insane. They’re actively giving the market over to node.

[neonsunset]

As I keep having to repeat here ad-nauseam, DevKit is optional, you only really need base C# extension which is what provides language server, debugger and code completion capabilities. For VSCodium and non VSC-based distrubutions there's also a fork that packages Samsung's NetCoreDbg component instead of vsdbg.

You'd be right to point out that confusing README of these two does not do .NET any justice however.