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Re:Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:58AM (#24221614)
funny fact, that's how Google started experimenting with Flutter
All I want is X1 yoga with 3:2 screen ratio and AMD ryzen... guess I will wait for X years for them to do anything...
Re:Qt and Open Source on Thursday April 09, 2020 @08:52PM (#22828835)
Looking forward for kde moving to gtk ;)

Would probably be good for gtk development

You don't have to do that. you can write everything in one file if you want. But when you introduce some architecture you always have some verbosity
My React Native experience is very limited, but RN lacks of widgets. With Flutter you get complete package of material and apple widgets to create UI. Also RN is quite laggy on Android
> As if Dart doesn't ship a runtime into all the platforms it runs on. > A quite big one actually.

yeah, whole 4,5 mb....

Relax, it's being speced now, give them time to make non-nullables first.
Re:PinePhone Review on Friday December 20, 2019 @01:44PM (#21846441)
Good opportunity to use Flutter and build apps for that :)
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @09:37AM (#21524540)
yeah, i got one with touchbar, it's very bad and useless.

about butterfly switches... garbage

Re:Ask HN: Is Thinkpad X1 Carbon an Alternative to MacBook Pro? on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:59AM (#21026725)
install macOS on thinkpad ;)
Re:Flutter desktop shells on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:05AM (#19806591)
I'm tired of long compilation and failing compiler ;)
Re:Flutter desktop shells on Thursday May 02, 2019 @07:04AM (#19806588)
As someone who uses dart everyday - it's quite nice language. All I'm missing is case / data classes, non-nullable types and pattern matching, but they're changing the language and all of those will eventually come. For now, I will use built_value and built_collections ;)