A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop

Re:A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop by sickcodebruh on Friday January 18, 2019 @09:58AM (#18939693)

What is everyone's take on the future of Flutter for Desktop? It's exciting to think that it could be a viable alternative to Electron or Qt but the fact that this is enabled entirely by third-party projects concerns me. Is Flutter for Desktop something that has a future? Will apps built with these tools be maintainable a year from now? At what point would you say it's safe to invest time building and deploying projects built with it?

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Re:A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop by beavis2 on Friday January 18, 2019 @12:02PM (#18940689)

I've tried them all.

- I don't want to return to C++

- I dislike javascript for large projects because even the best tooling is lacking, and the exploding dependency count.

- I love C#, but WPF renders worse than Electron (and Windows only).

- WinForms - mothballed.

- VB6/Delphi are EOL.

- UWP - Very lacking, will probably be abandoned.

- Java - I have no experience.

It will be a case of Flutter sucking less than the current options. Dart is actually a nice language, especially considering the runtime size - there's no framework overhead/bloat.

I imagine it to be Electron, but with a decent set of widgets and without the overhead.

Edit - to answer the main question:

Personally, I wouldn't develop anything more than a throw-away or personal project right now, but it's worth keeping an eye on it.

It would be nice to have a cross-device framework.

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Re:A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop by andrewgiang on Friday January 18, 2019 @10:12AM (#18939796)

Google is already experimenting with using flutter for desktop https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding

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Re:A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop by pjmlp on Friday January 18, 2019 @10:34AM (#18939952)

They also took care to stress multiple times last year, even during Q&A, that only iOS and Android are their main focus.

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Re:A Go Custom Flutter Engine Embedder for Desktop by sickcodebruh on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:37PM (#18942808)

Experimenting is the key word there. From the caveats section of their readme: "This is not an officially supported Google product." It's promising if they decide to officially support but it's dubious until then.

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