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Re:We're forking Flutter by divan on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @05:13AM (#41981220)
I disagree with this so much for two reasons:

1. I shipped more than five Flutter web apps with actual users for a couple of years, and it's been a great experience so far.

2. "Native" web core should burn in hell, and I hope Wasm will finally contribute to it. Amount of developers who do not realize that "native web" is a typesetting engine from 80s with a pile of hacks on top of it, is too large to fight the opinion, of course. And yet, as a developer, I care about using the right tool for the right task, and no amount of browser engine optimization can change the fact that XML-based markup language is not the right tool for modern performant cross-platforms UIs.

Re:We're forking Flutter by wruza on Tuesday October 29, 2024 @08:25AM (#41983168)
Native doesn’t mean web. I meant just an input as it works everywhere on a platform, input core.

Partially agree on the web sentiment, it just lacks a proper model, both positioning and styling, for what we call apps.