The next step in my view is the addition of quality components to the Forms base, and they are doing just that at the moment. I have reviewed and given input for CollectionView, FontIconSource and other specs that are actively being worked on. I saw Miguel demo-ing my input in .NET Conf in the demo Shell app, so they are listening! You did a few stellar Pull Requests yourself, with the Label Spans.
I took them a long time to restructure the project after Jason Smith's leave of absence, but I think David Ortinau is doing a stellar job and the GitHub project is an exemplary open source project. It needs more community involvement, and the F100 stuff you helped drive was very, very good. Next to better components and adding more resources this is another challenge for the project at hand.
I agree it is a bit of a Linux on the Desktop story, "next year", but taken the task at hand (so many platforms), the pace is not that bad. In the mean time I can produce good apps with a few extra libraries, so what...
Its great they seem to be listening to you, they never really listened to me. F100 was brought about because they weren't listening, and the community had to do things they wanted because Xamarin weren't ever getting around to it.
I put a lot of effort into XF, and at the time, it was the best x-plat development environment (for my usage) around. But Flutter has really highlighted its shortcomings and I don't hold much faith that Shell is going to bring it to the front again.
I took them a long time to restructure the project after Jason Smith's leave of absence, but I think David Ortinau is doing a stellar job and the GitHub project is an exemplary open source project. It needs more community involvement, and the F100 stuff you helped drive was very, very good. Next to better components and adding more resources this is another challenge for the project at hand.
I agree it is a bit of a Linux on the Desktop story, "next year", but taken the task at hand (so many platforms), the pace is not that bad. In the mean time I can produce good apps with a few extra libraries, so what...