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Re:Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for m... by d3nj4l on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @10:25AM (#29175611)
Oh sure, I wanted to talk more about the "one codebase" idea - and with the state of FFI being what it is today, if you can pick anything, why pick Dart? is my thinking.

And I don't particularly hate Dart. It's fine. I've written a lot of Java so it's not much worse. But if I had free reign to choose, I'd much rather take Rust.

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Re:Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for m... by cercatrova on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:30AM (#29176574)
But for most users, do you really think they want to deal with manual memory management like with Rust? It's a UI framework not a backend performance critical one, I don't think Rust would make much sense. Dart is also compiled and gets good enough performance, at least way better than JS which is JIT not compiled to machine code.
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