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Flutter is kinda good (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/programming@programming.dev
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I don't have much to say, only that I expected flutter to be a bloated fragile abstraction on top of different native GUI APIs, but no.

It's quite fast, relatively easy to develop and it just works.

I'm working on a desktop app that needs a high-perf rust impl, and (for now) flutter looks like a much better choice than tauri.

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[–] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's a real shame. Great framework but based on a single purpose language by a company known to drop projects on a whim. I loved to play with it, but I can't imagine sinking a lot of dev hours into it, knowing it could just disappear.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Dart's single purpose was supposed to be a JS successor for browsers.

    I can understand trepidation about committing to a sibling of Google Reader, but I'm also glad Dart is getting a second shake. It's very much a general-purpose language.

    I personally enjoy writing Dart a lot more than Go. It really added to my experience learning and working with Flutter.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Totally get you but it’s open source isn’t it? I don’t think it’ll just die randomly. Especially considering Google uses it themselves

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Just being open source doesn't guarantee a project's survival. If Google were to abandon it the most likely outcome would be a community fork that gets 100th of the development manpower it gets now, and most developers would abandon the platform leading to it's effective death.

    But I also think it's unlikely Google will abandon it. It's actually quite good and quite popular now.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's never stopped them before.

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