Re:Flutter desktop shells
by RussianCow on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:02PM
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> Most cross platform frameworks solve that kind of problem by letting you write platform specific code. The problem there of course is that you're just writing multiple apps again, often in a non-native or at least second class, language.
Isn't this throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Only a very small portion of your code should be platform-specific (10-20%?), which is still a huge win over maintaining multiple native apps. Of course, in practice, there are many other disadvantages of using cross-platform frameworks that may outweigh the benefits, such as the inevitable impedance mismatch between languages, APIs, concepts, etc.
Lazy cross platform development will always fall: no solution will do the work of having to think of how your software will look on other platforms. With a bit of work, though, you can minimize this duplicate effort.
Not all platforms have the same user interfaces/paradigms. What is the Windows equivalent of the OSX dock? What is Linux's equivalent?
Most cross platform frameworks solve that kind of problem by letting you write platform specific code. The problem there of course is that you're just writing multiple apps again, often in a non-native or at least second class, language. (By second class I mean it's not what the OS authors intended their apps to be written in.)