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Re:Gio UI – Cross-Platform GUI for Go by deergomoo on Saturday May 18, 2024 @05:58PM (#40402466)
Are any of those better than the alternative, or just cheaper?

I suppose if the alternative is “this only exists on one platform” or “this doesn’t exist at all” then maybe, but I find it a bit sad how keen we are as a profession to accept compromise and mediocrity to save developer time and expense.

I get it, but I don’t like it.

Re:Gio UI – Cross-Platform GUI for Go by mdhb on Sunday May 19, 2024 @02:30AM (#40404695)
2/3 of those examples had no requirements for cross platform and still chose it anyways. Additionally all 3 of those examples decided to take what they already had with native and decided to rewrite it because of the benefits.

I’m saying the “gap” between Flutter and native in this case is much much much smaller than you seem to think it is. Quite a bit has changed there in the past year or two.

That isn’t my opinion but that was the result of many major and very competent teams coming to that conclusion and putting their money where their mouth is in order to substantiate the claim.