New Ubuntu installer will use Flutter

Re:New Ubuntu installer will use Flutter by offtop5 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:29AM (#26078562)

Great , I love Flutter and I see it as the future of cross platform development.

Dart is like typescript with actual types, and without JavaScript ecosystem baggage

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Re:New Ubuntu installer will use Flutter by Pinguinsan on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:47PM (#26085529)

This isn't meant to be snarky, but why would we need a cross-platform UI toolkit for a (by definition) Linux only installer?

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Re:New Ubuntu installer will use Flutter by curryst on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:39AM (#26090592)

It makes sense to only use a single UI toolkit. If some of your stuff is cross platform, it's probably easier to write the single-platform stuff on the cross-platform toolkit than it is to have your devs need to know 2 or more toolkits.

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Re:New Ubuntu installer will use Flutter by offtop5 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @05:32PM (#26095717)

So developers have more transferable skills.

I had to make a web app with a friend and I used Flutter which was absolutely amazing. Easier to work in than react native, and now if I want to work on some Linux desktop apps I have the skills to do so.

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Re:New Ubuntu installer will use Flutter by tutfbhuf on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:42AM (#26078735)

Does Flutter (Dart) generate native binaries like Go?

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Re:New Ubuntu installer will use Flutter by Rochus on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:02AM (#26079042)

Yes, see e.g. https://flutter.dev/docs/resources/faq

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Re:New Ubuntu installer will use Flutter by matthewaveryusa on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:17AM (#26079255)

yes and yes! Flutter generates a binary for desktop apps, although It's Alpha. In order to generate a binary in Dart (say for something that's serverside) you need to download the flutter SDK and run dart2native. It's rather new so there's still lots of room for performance improvements but it looks very promising.

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