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Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by baxuz on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:53AM (#26341703)
I honestly can't stand the guy but I can't say that he doesn't make a good point about open source projects.

React native and Flutter aside, look at the entire electron ecosystem.

In order to actually use electron you need stuff from https://github.com/electron-userland which is basically a dumpster of abandonware with PRs sitting for years, thousands of issues, lack of maintainers, and repo owners basically going "lol not my problem".

Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by cuddlecake on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:16AM (#26341418)
Oh no, I thought I finally got rid of recommendations for content by TechLead, and now I accidentally clicked on this.

Does TechLead produce anything other than shallow content with Clickbait Titles and promotion for his Tech Interview lessons?

Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by whalesalad on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:33AM (#26341524)
If you take them for what they are I find them entertaining. This video is not bad. It points out the bullshittery going on with Google and Flutter pretty well. Hard to trust Google at this point after their track record of doing things like this.
Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by jamil7 on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:22AM (#26341445)
Some of the titles are hilarious though, I love the "<Clickbait Title>... (as a millionaire)" format.
Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:41AM (#26341587)
I'm not a big fan but this particular video is spot on.
Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by karmakaze on Thursday March 04, 2021 @12:10PM (#26345016)
Oh yeah, that guy. 'I didn't get into the companies that I applied to, here's some content...'

Say what we will, but he's gained a recognizable infamy.

Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by spatulon on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:05AM (#26341817)
When I was first in the market for a smartphone, circa 2009, the iPhone's smooth animations were a large factor in my decision of which one to buy.

Back then, the Android phones I looked at couldn't scroll a simple web page without stuttering, and it was incredibly jarring. It completely broke the illusion that you were interacting with and directly controlling a physical object.

Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by poisonborz on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:24AM (#26341469)
He wants to review Flutter performance... in debug mode.
Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by vijaybritto on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:59AM (#26341754)
I dont think the problem is untrue. There are countless issues in github about this and its true Google has been handling this very bad.

I have a belief that all of Google's projects are only for a short amount of time. They always move on to the next cool thing and leave out good products/software to die. I don't understand how this is accepted in the company. I guess they are not interesting in anything other than trendsetting?!

Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by cosmotic on Thursday March 04, 2021 @02:05PM (#26346667)
As a UI framework, jank totally breaks the core purpose of the framework. All the people complaining about this issue have a good point.

However, to me, this seems like what people should have been expecting when picking up a cross platform framework. Want free cross platform? You're going to have to accept these sorts of bugs.

Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by nullifidian on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:08AM (#26341369)
Probably trivially solvable by a progress bar for the iOS platform. Also, this video was made before the Flutter 2 release, so it possible that it's no longer relevant.
Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by logicchains on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:24AM (#26341467)
Just like how Tensorflow 2 fixed all the issues people had with Tensorflow?
Re:Flutter's Janky Animations Problem by dvfjsdhgfv on Thursday March 04, 2021 @07:39AM (#26341569)
> Probably trivially solvable

It doesn't matter if it's difficult to solve or not, what matters is that it's not fixed for a long time.