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Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by bsaul on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @06:43PM (#23160988)
Same feeling here. still waiting for that killer flutter app to convince me one can actually build a real app with decent latency in flutter
Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by chirau on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @06:52PM (#23161085)
What do you mean by killer exactly?

Splice is now on flutter, including web. I'd say that is a pretty demanding app.

Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by dmix on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @02:05AM (#23163950)
I checked out Splice and they are using Angular/Rails for their web app? Both builtwith and HTML source code for their marketing website and logged in app indicate this.

I watched their talk video [1] and they seemed to have only built an MVPish app using Flutter (ie, less than a year using it + a team of two devs). And it only seems to be for the desktop app?

Maybe I'm missing where they are using it on the web... but I wouldn't call this a huge buy in.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcjPNKmyrlM

Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by bsaul on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @04:46AM (#23164885)
I mean an app with a large user base built in majority with flutter.
Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by wtetzner on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @07:11PM (#23161251)
A killer app is something like Rails. Rails made Ruby popular, because it was so good that people who otherwise wouldn't have been interested in Ruby were willing to use it for the benefits they got from Rails.
Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by satvikpendem on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @08:57PM (#23162147)
I suppose Flutter is Dart's killer app, since you're comparing frameworks and languages. Rails is to Ruby as Flutter is to Dart, as it were. I suggest you give it a try. Personally, this felt like the "killer" feature to me, fully advanced animations that I'm not sure are possible on native widget based frameworks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCyoHclCqc8
Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by hopia on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @09:02PM (#23162210)
Wouldn't Flutter be the killer app to Dart as Rails was to Ruby by your analogy?
Re:React Native for Windows and Mac by wtetzner on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @10:00PM (#23162616)
Maybe? I don't know enough about it to say. I was just trying to clarify what a "killer app" was by using an example.