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.

  • manxu@piefed.socialEnglish
    24·
    4 days 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.

    • zagaberoo@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      3 days 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
      2·
      3 days 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

      • FizzyOrange@programming.dev
        8·
        3 days 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.

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
    5·
    4 days ago

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

  • kixik@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 days 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.

  • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    3 days 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.

  • livingcoder@programming.dev
    1·
    1 day ago

    I wanted to get into Flutter but it seems like there are some bugs that are either unfixable or that they have actively decided not to fix. I didn’t want to end up wasting my time building on such a foundation, but it’s definitely nice for certain projects that fit within the supported functionality.