What is the state of .NET Blazor?

1 hliyan 0 8/25/2025, 11:53:25 AM

Having recently started using .NET Razor pages after a decade of React + Node, I've come to admire the simplicity of mostly server-rendered code using a natively strongly typed, compiled language with a rich standard library. But I've been told that Blazor is newer and better. But considering that it seems to be a client-side .NET runtime built with WebAssembly(!) and Microsoft's history with front-end technologies, I did a search on past discussions on HN and found this comment from 2021:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26885807

>> The amount of energy Microsoft is pouring into these front-end efforts is pretty incredible.

> After winforms, silverlight, wpf, webforms and WinUI I don't want energy, I want to see them focus for more than 5 minutes. The only stable UI tech from MS with any long term support has been Win32 that came out 25 years ago.

> I predict blazor will be quietly dropped (they won't actually admit it for 5 years), just like the others and you'll be forced to rewrite your software in a few years.

How has the author's 5 year prediction panned out? Is Blazor growing, or languishing?

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What is the state of .NET Blazor?

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