Flutter 3.47 • Hacker News Board

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by maxloh » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 3:07 AM UTC

doodlesdev wrote: post #33

While I've used Flutter since Alpha, I've been away for a few years. A few things have shocked me in these release notes: how come Impeller still wasn't the default engine for all platforms? Also, why are they migrating to WASM if one of the core features of Dart is compiling to JavaScript? Finally, how come multi window support only get viable now, after four years having desktop support? Honestly, Flutter is an ext…

Flutter operates more like a 2D game engine. It renders its own views, which involves a lot of arithmetic operations, making WASM a more efficient option than JS.

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by wstrange » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 3:07 AM UTC

sunsetSamurai wrote: post #48

how's Dart for back end development? is anybody using it to build APIs? the syntax doesn't look too bad

Try out serverpod. Not affiliated with them- it's just a super nice integrated Dart backend:

https://serverpod.dev/

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by bbkane » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 3:22 AM UTC

amazingamazing wrote: post #40

I always find it strange that flutter isn’t built with golang or typescript. Why use a new language? When flutter came out both languages existed so curious about that. The main reason i can think of is generics not existing initially

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, it's a super reasonable question.

Iirc the reason is that the Dart team was willing to heavily modify the language and runtime to accommodate the needs of Flutter and the V8 team wasn't.

I think this is the video that talks about this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xqGAC5QCYuQ

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by cocoa19 » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 3:25 AM UTC

superze wrote: post #25

kumarvvr wrote: post #13

The one thing I hate about flutter is the ui code having an ungodly amount of nested brackets.

Loc goes brrrrrrr. The tokenmaxxing of the 20s

Didn't realize it until now, but you're right.

LOC is dead, long live token usage.

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by davidkuennen » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 3:28 AM UTC

matchbok3 wrote: post #16

gumby271 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How are they limping? Flutter has completely replaced it's rendering engine across all platforms and they're building out major window management support on desktop platforms. At some point there's just not much exciting new stuff to add. Flutter is a nice stable platform, I'd highly recommend it.

Right, but, nobody uses it. So what's the point for Google?

Been using it for six years with fairly high success: https://stockevents.app

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by eklavya » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 3:28 AM UTC

synergy20 wrote: post #31

great for mobile apps, fine for desktops, basically unusable for browsers unless you do wasm, if web can be revamped/improved it can be the best option for cross platform GUI

You are in luck then, use jaspr.

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by wiseowise » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 3:47 AM UTC

> We are actively working toward enabling WebAssembly (Wasm) by default for Flutter web applications, bringing native-like performance to the browser.

lol.

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by wiseowise » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 3:52 AM UTC

Larrikin wrote: post #20

vmg12 wrote: post #6

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Easy, there are a few google teams that use flutter and the cost savings from not having to have dedicated ios and android teams is very easy to point at to justify the project's existence. I think Dart and Flutter are very overlooked. The language has completely changed since its release, its statically typed, has null safety, enums, and pattern matching, and is very simple and easy to read. It has fast compilation…

But they also fund JetBrains, Jetpack Compose, and KMP. It feels like the company threw their support behind Kotlin a long while ago on mobile, but internal struggles keep the others limping along. Compose UI tooling no longer requires viewing on device.

Only because it was cheaper to migrate Android to Kotlin instead of Dart. JetBrains needs Google more than Google needs JetBrains.

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by wiseowise » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 3:53 AM UTC

cageface wrote: post #12

vmg12 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Easy, there are a few google teams that use flutter and the cost savings from not having to have dedicated ios and android teams is very easy to point at to justify the project's existence. I think Dart and Flutter are very overlooked. The language has completely changed since its release, its statically typed, has null safety, enums, and pattern matching, and is very simple and easy to read. It has fast compilation…

I’ve had good experiences with Flutter too. It’s actually much easier to build a performant macOS app with flutter than with SwiftUI.

> It’s actually much easier to build a performant macOS app with flutter than with SwiftUI.

Got any case studies?

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by wiseowise » Thu, Aug 13, 2026, 3:56 AM UTC

Cyph0n wrote: post #38

doodlesdev wrote: post #34

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I've made a huge critic towards Flutter in another comment of mine, but adoption isn't it: the biggest bank in Brazil, with 135 million clients, is a digital bank whose sole interface is their Flutter app. They are different regarding tech choices (they use Clojure on the backend too), but I think it's a huge testament of how far along Flutter adoption has come. Also, Google dogfoods it quite a bit.

Interesting, so Nubank is a heavy Flutter user?

https://building.nubank.com/scaling-with-flutter/

https://flutter.dev/showcase/nubank