Given VS 2019 on Win, how experiment with MAUI today?

[MappingSteve]

I am very interested in Slim Renderers, and using MVU.

The past four years (and ongoing), I've split my time between desktop C#/VB development, and Xamarin Android + iOS development (both with and without X-Forms). (And before that, many years on a variety of earlier platforms.)

I want to help make sure that MAUI:

• Addresses issues I've seen in developing custom controls and custom renderers for X-Forms.

• Supports some flavor of MVU: I have found MVVM to be unsatisfactory.

• (as an option) Targets Skia + WebAssembly in Browsers, so can develop for web, in a clean .NET stack, with minimal reliance on the HTML+CSS+JS platform. (What Silverlight didn't quite pull off.)

How do I get started, in experimenting with MAUI?

My primary environment is VS 2019 on Win.

~ aka ToolmakerSteve

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EDIT

I've installed

• Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 (v16.8, Preview 3)
• .NET 5 SDK 5.0.100-rc.1

I've cloned dotnet/maui repo to a local repository.