Flutter desktop isn’t there yet
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Flutter desktop isn’t there yet
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#2i am greatful for Flutter if only to motivate the React Native team
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#3Multiple windows is on the roadmap and high priority.
For me the best use of desktop is testing mobile apps without having to use my phone or an emulator. It works really well.
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#4His point stands for me as well. I saw a lot of huge potential for cross-platform mobile development but desktop feels like a bad port of a mobile app rendered on desktop.
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#5Flutter is going to be 5 years old soon. It's not even the leading solution for cross-platform development for mobile let alone desktop. It's great to be positive and supportive but realistically, if someone had to bet months of dev work on building something non-trivial - would they really choose flutter?
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#6For me, Flutter mobile isn't there yet either. I can see where it might be great for games with completely custom UIs, but I find the uncanny valley of pretend native controls a very uncomfortable place to be.
Flutter could be a fantastic solution if it supported native controls and used JavaScript. I don't understand why Flutter's creators are so seemingly religious about Dart and reimplementing OS UI capabilities.
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#7i am greatful for Flutter if only to motivate the React Native team
One single platform for cross platform development is enough motivation and react native has improved a lot in the past year.
The entire concept of developing the same app multiple times for different platforms is just so mind numbingly dumb. 3x the engineering team, 3 different platforms with all their different idiosyncrasies. The impossibility of maintaining feature parity across all three platforms. 3x the testing and debugging.
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#8For me, Flutter mobile isn't there yet either. I can see where it might be great for games with completely custom UIs, but I find the uncanny valley of pretend native controls a very uncomfortable place to be. Flutter could be a fantastic solution if it supported native controls and used JavaScript. I don't understand why Flutter's creators are so seemingly religious about Dart and reimplementing OS UI capabilities.
Isn't what you're describing basically React Native? I think the Flutter devs wanted to try a different approach to address what they felt were the shortcomings of React Native which brings along its own set of tradeoffs.
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#9Flutter is going to be 5 years old soon. It's not even the leading solution for cross-platform development for mobile let alone desktop. It's great to be positive and supportive but realistically, if someone had to bet months of dev work on building something non-trivial - would they really choose flutter?
It’s hardly some toy SDK that is only suitable for MVPs. Google’s single biggest money maker Ads is built with it. It’s hardly a Google specific thing either there are a number of mega sized players also strongly betting on it for some fairly mission critical stuff if I understood correctly.
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#10I feel like this is similar the conversations we heard about Rust and Go 5-10 years ago.
late edit: 5-10 years ago people were complaining about these languages having issues binding databases, network protocols, etc.