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Re: Flutter 3

#11
I was hoping to see better HTML rendering. Using a single canvas to render web apps was my one turn off. Flutter is the right choice for many apps, but not for apps primarily accessed over the Web.

Re: Flutter 3

#13
post #11

I was hoping to see better HTML rendering. Using a single canvas to render web apps was my one turn off. Flutter is the right choice for many apps, but not for apps primarily accessed over the Web.

IMO it's most useful for more compute intensive web apps like an image editor.

Re: Flutter 3

#15
post #11

I was hoping to see better HTML rendering. Using a single canvas to render web apps was my one turn off. Flutter is the right choice for many apps, but not for apps primarily accessed over the Web.

What’s wrong with using a single canvas? It can be faster. Google Docs and Figma, for example, use canvas rendering

Re: Flutter 3

#19
On one hand, I'm excited, on the other hand, I'm using a Flutter app right now as essentially a utility for my own personal use.

I'm horrified if I upgrade it everything will break and I'll have to commit to fixing it.

Still, I'm very excited about this, I'd argue flutter is what react native wanted to be.

Re: Flutter 3

#20

I have an irrational annoyance when projects claim to support "desktop UI" but then only have the most trivial of widgets commonly used in desktop applications. Where is my tree view? Data grid view? Charts? Native file dialog window? From my perspective, while I'm sure Flutter is wonderful, it fits squarely in the "mobile" UI toolkit and "basic" desktop application category.

With limited resources you have to choose. If flutter focused on UI elements before Mac OS + Linux stability, the top comment would be "Flutter is a solid option for Windows but without Linux or Mac support it is useless."

The flutter team has proven generally capable of developing UI elements on mobile across iOS/Android. Getting platform stability is a welcome step and i trust them to continue to build out the desktop element set.

Flutter has been my go-to for mobile app dev for years and i haven't considered returning to react native, pure native or cordova since i swapped.

All that being said, i have spent my afternoon debugging an issue with Flutter's first-party camera plugin, so it isn't all roses.

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