Re:Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for m...
by mmastrac on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @08:22AM
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I love the idea of Flutter, but tying it to Dart just seems like a way to guarantee it'll have a long slog to getting larger-scale usage. It feels like Google had a language that had no users and had to use it for _something_.
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Re:Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for m...
by csells on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @12:29PM
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Dart as a platform provided the unique ability to target both JIT at development-time to enable sub-second hot reload and AOT for release apps, providing native performance when it comes to scrolling, animation, etc.
Re:Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for m...
by eloisius on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:03AM
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I'm kind of curious why they haven't tried to bring Go to more domains. Back in 2015 I thought by now they'd have released a framework for building Android apps in Go.
Re:Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for m...
by d3nj4l on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:40AM
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This. Flutter is fine, but Dart rankles me. I wish they'd used Kotlin for it instead - a much nicer language with cleaner aesthetics.
Re:Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for m...
by gnabgib on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:27PM
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Dart came out the same year as Kotlin.. it's not like this decision was made this year (they're both 10 years old).
Re: Sibling comment it really is an order of magnitude better than many other languages. It's worth giving a try. Null safety alone is worth it (although other languages like C# now support this too).