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Flutter is kinda good (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by verstra@programming.dev 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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[–] manxu@piefed.social 25 points 1 week ago (3 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.

[–] zagaberoo@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week 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.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 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

[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 8 points 1 week ago (1 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.

[–] MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's never stopped them before.

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 1 week 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.

[–] enemenemu@lemm.ee 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] manxu@piefed.social 2 points 1 week ago

Haha touché, two peas in a pod.