Re:Flutter desktop shells
by mattlondon on Thursday April 25, 2019 @11:47AM
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Same here - its a real shame they picked a niche language for this rather than the now universal Typescript like everything else.
As such, I'll pass since this feels like a dead-end just like polymer was. It felt like polymer had the same hype cycle as flutter - was going to make development so much easier/faster/less error prone etc. It is now a semi-abandoned legacy hulk of a project that people hate working with (anecdote I know, but that has been my experience) because its totally different and alien to how people are used to working, for no/little obvious benefit apart from "this is from google! its got to be good!"
I wish Google would just accept defeat and support existing common tools rather than suffering from "not-invented-here" syndrome and create something totally different and non-compatible, rather than contributing to the existing industry de facto standards to make them better. There may still be a few "google-scale problems", but UI frameworks and HTML libraries are not them.
As such, I'll pass since this feels like a dead-end just like polymer was. It felt like polymer had the same hype cycle as flutter - was going to make development so much easier/faster/less error prone etc. It is now a semi-abandoned legacy hulk of a project that people hate working with (anecdote I know, but that has been my experience) because its totally different and alien to how people are used to working, for no/little obvious benefit apart from "this is from google! its got to be good!"
I wish Google would just accept defeat and support existing common tools rather than suffering from "not-invented-here" syndrome and create something totally different and non-compatible, rather than contributing to the existing industry de facto standards to make them better. There may still be a few "google-scale problems", but UI frameworks and HTML libraries are not them.