[Enhancement] Support a MAUI wrapped Blazor App on Linux #1274
Description
Summary
This is an enhancement request, or registering interest in the potential support of running a MAUI application which wraps a Blazor application running on Linux.
Intended Use Case
In the Industrial Control space, customers want access to their Human Machine Interface (HMI) visualizations on a variety of platforms. While the traditional UC's of consuming HMI visualizations are on Windows, Mobile, and Web platforms, there is also a great deal of UC's around smaller, light weight machines that have their own custom HMI that are packaged/delivered/(literally attached) to the specific machinery. These light weight machines typically run versions of Linux.
Assumptions
As MS Edge has been released for Linux, WebView2 also needs to be delivered to Linux as well.
Some amount of MAUI needs to run on Linux as the shell hosting the WebView2 control for the Blazor application.
High Level Vision
Blazor is an amazing technology stack that will allow customers to create business logic and a UI layer that spans all platforms when combined with MAUI. For .Net 6, only desktop topologies are being targeted for a MAUI wrapped Blazor application, presumably followed by iOS/Android targets in .Net 7. Ideally Linux support can also be considered for .Net 7.