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Re: Flutter Release Preview 2

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Post by Apocryphon » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 5:57 AM UTC

spiritcat wrote: post #120

Apocryphon wrote: post #89

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Having to learn a new programming language is hardly a rare experience in mobile development.

But when else are you ever going to use dart?

You can say the same thing about Objective-C. Without Kotlin Native, there hasn't been any non-Android use cases for the language yet. Even Swift's web and ML applications haven't gotten huge traction either.

Re: Flutter Release Preview 2

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Post by pjmlp » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 9:20 AM UTC

Apocryphon wrote: post #117

pjmlp wrote: post #116

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A programming language is more than just semantics, Dart eco-system is a tiny dot when compared against C++ and C#. Flutter deployment times aren't worthwhile enough to bother with a language with uncertain future.

Doesn't Dart interop with JavaScript libraries?

It does, given its history.

However that is very little against C# and C++, which can also be compiled to JavaScript/WebAssembly.

Additionally there are TypeScript, ReasonML, and a myriad of other languages with JavaScript interop.

Re: Flutter Release Preview 2

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Post by saagarjha » Fri, Sep 21, 2018, 5:36 PM UTC

tym0 wrote: post #107

saagarjha wrote: post #85

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Do you have a widget catalog somewhere that I could try out on my device?

If you have an android device you can use Flutter Gallery [1], it has the Cupertino (iOS) widgets. [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.flutter.dem...

Does this actually emulate OS-specific interactions such as gestures?