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Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful by biztos on Monday July 01, 2024 @08:29AM (#40845125)
Thanks, I will have a look at that. Serendipitously, I'm in the market for a new music player!

Yeah the Google risk... seems like they came out strong in support of Flutter at their last dev conference, but at the same time it does _not_ look like they're using it for their main apps.

Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful by cageface on Monday July 01, 2024 @09:19AM (#40845614)
Please let me know if you have any feedback or suggestions for the player.

And yes I’d feel more confident in Flutter if Google was dogfooding it a lot more.

Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful by mst on Monday July 01, 2024 @12:00PM (#40847081)
Without expressing an opinion on Flutter as such, it's worth remembering that Google is a big enough organisation that even -some- internal apps being built using it is quite a commitment, and it not having spread further internally could easily be a social or political rather than a technical issue.
Re:Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful by cageface on Monday July 01, 2024 @08:23PM (#40852330)
I don't think it it's a technical issue. On a technical level Flutter is mostly great. But Google has been doing aggressive cost cutting lately and not having Flutter in use in that many apps makes it more vulnerable.