Uno Platform

XAML was not an accident. It was a reaction. HTML let anyone sketch out UI. Design in the open, no gatekeepers. We wanted that for desktop, but deeper. More power. Designers and developers in the same room, both with a say. Not just code, not just visuals. The idea was clear. Write the shape of your UI, let the platform do the heavy lifting. That was the theory. Then reality set in. Microsoft promised a bridge. Blend was supposed to connect designers and developers. It never happened. Designers kept to their own tools. Developers got handed a pile of markup and were told to just make it work. The dream of actual collaboration real handoff, a real workflow never showed up. Instead, you got another thing for developers to maintain and another tool for designers to ignore. Microsoft kept stacking tech. Xamarin, Xamarin Forms, MAUI. Each with new branding, new story, same gaps. No reset, just new wrappers on the same problem. Collaboration never improved. The developer experience stayed stuck. The designer workflow never materialized. Every year, another pitch. Every year, more dead ends. More JavaScript retreat positions! The result was always the same. Teams waited for the big convergence. Picked a flavor, hoped it would pay off. Forums went quiet. Migration docs stalled out. The payoff never came. Developer and designer collaboration never got better. It was always a compromise. Unoplatform is the end of that cycle. It does not wait for permission. It does not rely on promises. It just delivers the basics: an open workflow where designers can design, developers can build, and the handoff is real. Figma is not a second-class citizen. You design there, it lands in Uno Platform . Developers do not need to reverse engineer a vision from screenshots. Designers stay involved. Actual collaboration, not theatre. Unoplatform does not play the old branding game. It does not force you to choose between frameworks or wonder what is getting killed off next. You target every major platform. You use the stack you want. The tools work. The process is open. Unoplatform is open, transparent, don't like it, you fix it. This is not nostalgia. It is the market stepping in where Microsoft would not finish the job. XAML finally gets to be what it was pitched as: a real meeting place for design and development, not just more markup in a codebase. The cycle is done. The excuses are over. The work actually happens. The only problem now is Microsoft needs to just stop competing. They lost, accept the defeat. Adopt this now. So we can all move on.

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JavaScript wasn’t designed. It was discharged. A ten day fever dream during the 90's browser wars, hacked into existence by Brendan Eich while the walls of Netscape burned. No spec. No vision. Just make the web dance. It wasn’t a language. It was a survival mechanism. And it should have died. Flash, Java Applets, ActiveX, all better equipped. All faster. More consistent. But they needed plugins. They needed permission. JavaScript didn’t. It was already inside the house. Developers hated it. Everyone did. No types. No modules. No classes but kind of. It hoisted variables like drunk ghosts and let you compare a string to a number and get away with it. It was chaos. But it was default. That made all the difference. Then came jQuery. The morphine drip. It masked the pain. Let you pretend the DOM wasn’t a nightmare. Right as devs lined up for the great escape, plugins started dying. Flash got gutted. Applets were a joke. Silverlight was a slow death. Suddenly JavaScript was the last man standing. The cockroach that wouldn’t die. And then came betrayal. Microsoft folded. Around 2010, with Silverlight bleeding out and WPF stagnating, Redmond had a choice. Push managed code. Double down on C# and XAML. Or walk. They walked. Told developers to embrace HTML5 and JavaScript. Web tech was the future. Silverlight was dead. If you didn’t want native C++, you had better get cozy with document.getElementById and the rest of the circus. The guy behind that call? Not at Microsoft anymore. He cashed out. Now he teaches product management at Harvard and probably calls it strategic repositioning. Meanwhile the wreckage smolders. MAUI is a meme. WPF is a ghost. Xamarin is stitched together with marketing promises and Stack Overflow duct tape. XAML? Pick a flavor. None stable. None agree. So what did devs do? They went all in on JavaScript. Not because it is good. Not because it is right. But because no alternative was left. And to cope with the pain, they built frameworks. React. Angular. Vue. Svelte. Entire ecosystems built to help you forget the monster at the core. These frameworks are not enhancements. They are quarantines. Their job is to change how you interact with JavaScript. To erase it from your brain. JSX? Not JS. Illusion. State libraries? Illusion. Virtual DOM? Illusion. It is all there to keep your fingers off the raw language. Because the minute you touch it, you remember. This thing was never supposed to survive past 1999. The modern dev stack is a shrine to a mistake. TypeScript? Not JavaScript. A bulletproof vest on a leaky raft. ESLint? A chaperone enforcing rules the language forgot. Babel? A translator for a language still rewriting itself mid sentence. Why do we keep propping it up? Because we have no choice. The entire front end world is a hostage situation. You do not choose JavaScript. You inherit it. There is hope. Francois Tanguay has a trick called Uno Platform. To be continued...