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Flutter is kinda good (programming.dev)
submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

the only reason i don't use flutter is because my brain is polluted with react

[-] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

My only experience with it was with harmony-music built/installed from AUR on artix, and I couldn't keep using it, it was consuming too munch CPU, making the fans run nuts. Not sure if it was harmony-music itself, or flutter. Apparently not the same OP experience.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

That's never stopped them before.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

To put better comical effect to that line, you can add a separate hyperlink to each word of the sentence, each leading to a separate article of one of the projects abandoned by Google.

Even better if all of them were widely used ones, affirming your point.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

My first thought was: "I didn't know that flutter is developed by mozilla"

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Haha touché, two peas in a pod.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I would love to talk about Qt Framework and QML, here, but QML doesn't seem particularly great either.
Although I have only used QML, so I might only be knowing the pains of it and not the others.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

Just pop open a QOpenGLWidget and say goodbye to QML and your sanity forever!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Guess I'll use that as my gateway to OpenGL

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Wait 6 months to a year. See what breaks.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I've also enjoyed working with it. Switching to React Native for a different project later felt like a huge step back.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I personally felt the nesting looks bad and confusing, but overall it's okay.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
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