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csells

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About csells

I enjoy long walks on the beach and various technologies.

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    Comment #47354149

    I wouldn't used the hell out of this the last time I was beginning a GitHub action.

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    Comment #47336991

    I've debugged GitHub actions before and it's a pita. I'd have used the hell out of this!

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    Comment #29177416

    Dart as a platform provided the unique ability to target both JIT at development-time to enable sub-second hot reload and AOT for release apps, providing native performance when it…

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    Comment #29177405

    Dart as a platform provided the unique ability to target both JIT at development-time to enable sub-second hot reload and AOT for release apps, providing native performance when it…

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    Comment #29177301

    We find that most developers want their apps to look and feel the same on multiple platforms, with some relatively minor tweaks. Flutter itself handles many platform specifics auto…

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    Comment #29177140

    Flutter provides its own widget implementations and does not rely on those provided by the underlying OS. This gives us the ability to give you complete control over scrolling, ani…

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    Comment #27932289

    It depends on your definition of optimal. If you optimize for time, then pressing each button one at a time until a Coke comes out. Plus it doesn't take any brain cells so I can ge…

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    Comment #26339269

    Actually, PMs love open, honest feedback. Keep it coming! Chris Sells PM, Flutter

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    Comment #26333237

    Flutter 2 contains desktop support at the beta level on both the beta channel and the stable channel behind a config flag.

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    Comment #25889760

    Wow. You have a great style.

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    Comment #24570319

    Hey, all. I'm a PM on the Flutter team and happy to be able to fill out the set desktop OSes that Flutter supports with Windows (in addition to macOS and Linux). Got Qs? AMA. https…

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    Comment #20943906

    Dart does have it's own compiler that targets the native instruction set for supported platforms, e.g. 32-bit and 64-bit ARM for Android and iOS, x86 for Windows and macOS, etc. We…

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    Comment #20943882

    As one concrete use case, you could use Dart FFI to call Win32 APIs that implement Flutter plugins that support Windows. You should have network access via wifi w/o any trouble tod…

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    Comment #20943872

    If you're writing Dart targeting Flutter for web (flutter.dev/web) you are able to make calls into JavaScript/TypeScript. Chris Sells PM, Flutter developer experience

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    Comment #19757406

    Thanks for the input!

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    Comment #19751407

    I have heard variations of that most of my life. I always wanted to get into the Unix shell business on the coast so that the following would be true: "Chris Sells sells C-shells b…

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    Comment #19750011

    I'm the PM for the Flutter developer experience. I'm currently digging into the next steps for our desktop experiment with Flutter and I'm very interested to hear how your xplat de…

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    Comment #10327907

    That's absolutely the goal, Colin. Give it a try and let us know what you think. Chris Sells Cloud Developer Tooling Product Manager csells@google.com

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    Comment #10327900

    Mark, if you'd like to try our version of a "web based IDE that gives you access to work with any code you have in your private Google-hosted git repos", check out the Source Edito…

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    Comment #9782354

    Thanks, nt. Cloud-based IDEs are the future, I think. Too many good reasons to have them.

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    Comment #9778035

    To be clear, this is the current limit in beta and it's per repo, so if you have multiple cloud projects, you get multiple repos. We're thinking about adding support for multiple r…

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    Comment #9777996

    I'm curious what kinds of additional features you'd be interested in here. In these comments so far I've heard code review, access control and online IDE. Would any of those be use…

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    Comment #9777990

    Of course, we're pretty proud of our git support. We also support "connected repos" where we keep a repo in Cloud Source Repositories in sync with a repo you specify on GitHub or B…

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