Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Dart more popular?
by a-user-you-like on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:15PM
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Flutter kills the open web by painting on a canvas.
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Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Dart more popular?
by beanjuiceII on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:40PM
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you can pick your renderer for web --web-renderer html
What do you think the browser paints on?
On a more serious note, the open web was killed when people decided to use the browser as an application platform instead of as a document delivery platform.
The open web was killed by many things:
- minification
- node_modules
- webpack
- wasm
- react
Painting on a canvas is the proper way to render application UI.
Re:Ask HN: Why isn't Dart more popular?
by IceWreck on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @10:58PM
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> Painting on a canvas is the proper way to render application UI.
It kills accessibility and extensibility. It also kills content blockers like uBlock Origin.
You can screenscrape HTML based web apps and there are numerous applications enabled by this - from in-browser extensions (eg grammerly) to the ability of Excel to import tables from the web. DOM-based pages is an imperfect model but it has enabled vast extensionability.
Not so for canvas based apps.