A Success!

In yesterday's post I mentioned that I was going to attempt to write a UI for this simple file based blogging platform using the Microsoft .NET MAUI today I'm able to report what is at least a partial success.

While what I've created so far is primitive, I'm quite impressed with how rapidly I've managed to move from an idea that I literally had yesterday to getting the beginnings of an app written. What's also impressed me is that I've had relatively few worries about cross platform compatibility so far, things have worked pretty smoothly. Naturally, there are caveats here, my app is still just the beginnings of an app and although it's running fine on an android emulator, I'll have to see how that translates to a tablet or a phone. For now though, I'll take the W and congratulate Microsoft on what looks like a really good cross platform framework for mobile devices.

The other change I made was a decision to do away with LangExt, a library I'd been experimenting with after seeing this video from Nick Chapsas and then reading this post from Joshua Johanan. I'd initially implemented a fair number of the blog's key functions using the strageies described by Nick and Josh, an interesting exercise and I can certainly see the utility in using monads in the way that was described, but in the end it just didn't suit this project.