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There’s nothing quite as exciting as brand new tech, and for the last year there’s been nothing newer or more ambitious in the Microsoft developer ecosystem than Blazor WebAssembly, an optimized runtime that lets you run C# code in a web browser.

For a while, Microsoft was promising that this ambitious change would happen in time for .NET 5, but it eventually slipped to .NET 6. (They specifically blamed the coronavirus for the delay, if you’re looking for another reason to hate 2020.)

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Officially, Blazor had its first release in .NET Core 3.1, but .NET 5 gives it a chance to reach a wider audience, including plenty of developers who are still wondering whether the platform is stable enough for them to start exploring. The answer is yes—with a few caveats.

The bottom line is that you’re hoping for an easier way to create native applications on a variety of platforms, you’re stuck waiting. Or, you can consider a third-party tool, like the excellent Uno Platform.

.NET 5 supports every project type it set out to support, with no real asterisks. You can build the full suite of ASP.NET applications (Razor pages, Blazor apps, and Web API services). It’s a similar story on the desktop side, with support for Windows applications that encompasses Windows Forms and WPF. (Obviously, all these applications rely on the Windows operating system. Despite the cross-platform powers of .NET, you can’t run or develop them on different operating systems.)

The Project Reunion features were initially slated for .NET 5, but they missed the cut. They’re currently a part of the WinUI 3 library, which is floating in preview limbo.

All of these features are still in play, and many are likely to show up in .NET 6. Whether Blazor is the best way to take advantage of WebAssembly in a browser — and how bright its future will be — are still up for debate.

Blazor has definitely evolved past the point where it started, as a proof-of-concept experiment. But it’s still bigger and heavier than pure JavaScript frameworks like React and Vue. And the application model, which closely follows ASP.NET Razor, is a convenience for some and an irritation to others, especially those who don’t already have a background in ASP.NET.

Although there’s still no sign of a single technology that can replace them all, Microsoft is trying to break down some of the walls that separate them. They launched Project Reunion, an initiative that will let Windows Forms and WPF applications use the FluentUI bits from UWP. Even more exciting, there’s a possibility that they’ll extend support beyond Windows 10, and all the way back to Windows 8.1.

Microsoft is famous for reinventing the wheel — except, instead of a wheel, think “desktop API.” Somehow, in a world that prizes a single codebase and run-everywhere languages like JavaScript, Microsoft has ended up simultaneously supporting three different models for Windows desktop development:

Some developers are understandably angry about these changes, but there are no surprises here — none of these technologies were ever in the .NET 5 roadmap. If you still need to support applications that use them, you’ll probably continue using the last version of .NET Framework (4.8). If you’re more ambitious, there are community projects trying to patch the WCF and WF gaps.

But here’s the catch. Xamarin didn’t just use a scaled-down .NET runtime, it also used a different UI model — one based in XAML, influenced by WPF, but still thoroughly its own. In other words, Xamarin is one more awkward island. It doesn’t mesh with Blazor on the web side, or with any of the Windows toolkits on the desktop side.

Microsoft had solution for that, too, called .NET MAUI (for Multi-platform App UI). It’s an evolution of Xamarin that allows you to target mobile Android and iOS platforms, and desktop Windows applications (WPF or UWP), with everything magically bundled into a single project. It might even integrate with the world of standard web applications through Blazor.

Incidentally, there were a number of major Blazor enhancements that developers were hoping would make the .NET 5 cutoff. Most didn’t. We did get lazy loading and CSS isolation. But if you were waiting for one of these features, prepare to be disappointed: