u/LikeASomeBoooodie

.NET shop looking to add some agentic workflows and chat interfaces to platform, currently researching framework options so we don’t have to build the thing from scratch.

Being a .NET shop MAF has come up. Hooked it up to GitHub CoPilot and took it for a quick spin, wasn’t too verbose and conceptually maps to tools like OpenCode pretty well.

Saw some posts on here about it a while ago but things seem to be moving really fast in this space. Looking for opinions on the viability of this framework? I see it had a 1.0 launch in April, it’s meant to supersede both Semantic Kernel and AutoGen.

Are the team behind it any good / trustworthy?

How likely is it to remain supported?

Has there been much community participation / extension?

How does it compare to similar frameworks in other languages, LangChain/Graph being an obvious one?

Is it good enough to prevent you from hopping languages or is python where it’s really at?

Any useful information is guaranteed at least one updoot, thanks in advance!

Growing up in the 00s it wasn’t uncommon to hear about someone who wouldn’t get vaccines cause they were too afraid of injections.

These days it feels like I’m way more likely to hear about how vaccines are likely to turn you / your kid autistic and give you nanobots and heart conditions.

I realise anti-vax is an old movement, and that there are legitimate conditions that prevent people from receiving vaccinations, but all the same I’m almost convinced it’s mostly just cowardice disguised as moral outrage and grandstanding.