Flutter looks good, but is painful

Re:Flutter looks good, but is painful by vbsteven on Monday August 05, 2019 @06:48AM (#20612967)

In a sense that already happened with the web stack. In tech like Electron developers write most of their app once and use a “shell” like Electron to interact with the host OS.

Unfortunately the web stack is very bloated with years of legacy and this requires these shell projects to embed a full browser engine making these apps bloated as well.

Flutter is an approach at making a new shell that provides rendering and host OS interaction without all the web bloat.

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Re:Flutter looks good, but is painful by nicoburns on Monday August 05, 2019 @03:15PM (#20617592)

Ah yes. I should have specified: a high-performance, low resource usage cross-platform UI. Flutter's a nice idea, but I somewhat suspect it will never make it out of its relatively small niche. I have my eye on the Rust UI work. It's a long way out, but it has the potential to be a really solid foundation for a universal UI platform.

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Re:Flutter looks good, but is painful by Isomorpheus on Monday August 05, 2019 @04:14PM (#20618401)

Don't forget Revery!

https://github.com/revery-ui/revery

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