alt Hacker NewsMaybe they are making progress. But given that they first started talking about this in 2018, and then in 2022 they announced that they were planning to release a version with CoreCLR in 2023, and then in 2024 they said it would be in beta in 2025, and now in 2025 they're planning to release it as a technical preview in 2026, but they're still talking about an "internal proof-of-concept" as though it's something coming in the future...
As an outsider, it certainly seems like there's reason for skepticism.
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cheschire • yesterday at 11:59 PM
Well they made some business decisions in the middle of that timeline that cut their funds quite a bit, not to mention probably scared off some good talent.
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I've seen similar things from the inside in other companies. Even existential threats (like lack of Apple Silicon support for performance-critical software), getting heavily delayed because the feature treadmill won't stop and the actually important thing is a pet project of some engineer. It is basically death by a thousand papercuts, where nobody can say what the focus is.
People complain about web development but working with native apps can be depressing sometimes.