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/edit Nevermind 'just' dart: https://github.com/starling-build/starling-engine#what-starl...
Still that part is kind of cool, 273K LOCs of the 335K
This post makes me feel grief. I mean no offence to you OP, this looks like a beautiful desktop and I am sure there was a lot of time put into this. But just sharing my grief. 3 years ago if I saw a post on the HN front page about a desktop environment written in Flutter (or a Swift port of Flutter), I'd be absolutely blown away. Now, I see this, and I feel nothing. I'm not impressed. I don't want to know how it work…
I know the feeling but only people in our community care about how the software sausage is made. The customer only cares about results and it's great that AI can deliver results quickly. What I'm still waiting to see is evidence of reliability, performance and UX cohesion in these vibe coded applications.
- another proof point that AI upends project economics
- AI will soon be able to make custom desktops and apps (msoffice clone anyone) that will undermine historic monopolies
- if you are not doing to them they are doing it to you
- makes language & framework a “don’t care”I don't understand why this exists or why anyone would use it. It just looks like Cinnamon with a b00merang macOS skin. So if there's a critical bug or security vulnerability, are you prepared to support it? If not, why bother making this? Everyone will rather opt for one of the proven distros/desktops.
This post makes me feel grief. I mean no offence to you OP, this looks like a beautiful desktop and I am sure there was a lot of time put into this. But just sharing my grief. 3 years ago if I saw a post on the HN front page about a desktop environment written in Flutter (or a Swift port of Flutter), I'd be absolutely blown away. Now, I see this, and I feel nothing. I'm not impressed. I don't want to know how it work…
Weird, the swift port of flutter seems waaaay more interesting than the desktop itself. Was it just the dart code of flutter ported or the runtime too? /edit Nevermind 'just' dart: https://github.com/starling-build/starling-engine#what-starl... Still that part is kind of cool, 273K LOCs of the 335K
Who would use this? There is no known author for starling. We don't know if a single person plagiarized another Window Manager, if it is a company or FSB effort. Right now it is just another marketing stunt.
If you want to say you're not like other girls and make a point of differentiating yourself from other people claiming to have made an LLM-generated desktop, the least you could do is take ten fucking minutes out of your supposed 6 month effort and write the description of what you've done yourself. When I see an obviously AI-generated website with obviously AI-generated copy, I have negative infinity reasons to beli…
If you want to say you're not like other girls and make a point of differentiating yourself from other people claiming to have made an LLM-generated desktop, the least you could do is take ten fucking minutes out of your supposed 6 month effort and write the description of what you've done yourself. When I see an obviously AI-generated website with obviously AI-generated copy, I have negative infinity reasons to beli…
https://starling.build/why.html