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Re:Flutter 2 by jamil7 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:30PM (#26334864)
Yeah but it’s usefulness is really limited and just feels shoehorned into the project. Why couldn’t it have been Kotlin or TS? Something that mobile developers or web developers could jump into and keep a bunch of their existing tooling.
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Re:Flutter 2 by distances on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:06PM (#26335369)
Then you would've needed to package a JVM or a JavaScript engine, making the app distribution a whole lotta different deal.
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Re:Flutter 2 by MongooseMan on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:24PM (#26335615)
Kotlin doesn't just run on the JVM - it can compile to native binaries with Kotlin Native. It compiles to WASM and JS too.
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Re:Flutter 2 by EvilEy3 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:02AM (#26339899)
At the time of Flutter development it couldn't do any of those things.
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Re:Flutter 2 by jamil7 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:31AM (#26340073)
Thats a good point, I tend to forget how long Flutter has been around.
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Re:Flutter 2 by EvilEy3 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @03:01AM (#26339891)
JetBrains Compose.
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