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Re: Flet – multi-platform apps in Python powered by Flutter

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Post by vouaobrasil »

All these multi-platform kits are getting fatiguing. Electron, sciter, neutralino, proton native...there are hundreds of others, and now Flet. Reminds me of the Google/Apple app stores, where there are 100+ solutions for the same problem, and all of them suck.

I wonder if we really did a good thing by building this "app culture" where everything needs a little "app" as a way of extracting a little more money from people. Although "app" means application, the word "app" is apt because it signifies the commercialization of applications into advertisements-as-a-program, in the same way that YouTube transformed videos into advertisements-as-a-video.

What a mess.

Re: Flet – multi-platform apps in Python powered by Flutter

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Post by PrivateButts »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #3

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Probs less of a don't use dart motivation and more of a "here's another option if you're a python dev". Especially since nobody seems in love with the current state of desktop UI frameworks for Python.

Also potentially a move to make Flutter more of a cross language standard for interfaces to oppose electron?

Re: Flet – multi-platform apps in Python powered by Flutter

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Post by exe34 »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #4

All these multi-platform kits are getting fatiguing. Electron, sciter, neutralino, proton native...there are hundreds of others, and now Flet. Reminds me of the Google/Apple app stores, where there are 100+ solutions for the same problem, and all of them suck. I wonder if we really did a good thing by building this "app culture" where everything needs a little "app" as a way of extracting a little more money from peo…

my issue with these hacks is that the moment you want to do something not already implemented, you have to now learn not only how to do it on the original platform but also figure out how to hack it into the hack. e.g. keep screen on, Bluetooth, gps, etc.

Re: Flet – multi-platform apps in Python powered by Flutter

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Post by brigadier132 »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #4

All these multi-platform kits are getting fatiguing. Electron, sciter, neutralino, proton native...there are hundreds of others, and now Flet. Reminds me of the Google/Apple app stores, where there are 100+ solutions for the same problem, and all of them suck. I wonder if we really did a good thing by building this "app culture" where everything needs a little "app" as a way of extracting a little more money from peo…

All of the good things you know came from a sea of bad things. There does not exist a world where only "perfectly designed" products and tools exist.

Re: Flet – multi-platform apps in Python powered by Flutter

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Post by vouaobrasil »

brigadier132 wrote: post #8
vouaobrasil wrote: post #4

All these multi-platform kits are getting fatiguing. Electron, sciter, neutralino, proton native...there are hundreds of others, and now Flet. Reminds me of the Google/Apple app stores, where there are 100+ solutions for the same problem, and all of them suck. I wonder if we really did a good thing by building this "app culture" where everything needs a little "app" as a way of extracting a little more money from peo…

All of the good things you know came from a sea of bad things. There does not exist a world where only "perfectly designed" products and tools exist.

But your statement is presupposing a world where the "sea of bad things to good things" has no flexibility in how it works. I am proposing that the current method where software is developed to go after microprofits through advertising and trivial functionality, and on a closed, corporation run platform, IS A BAD THING.
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