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Re: Flutter 3.47

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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.

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Post by Scene_Cast2 »

jimbob45 wrote: post #2

Of all the myriad projects from Google, how is Flutter/Dart the one that survived the axe? I’m not saying I hate them - I think they’re both really neat - I just don’t understand why Google keeps these limping along with weak support and no clear vision within their broader web ecosystem.

In one of their dev surveys, they did float the idea of divesting Flutter.

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Post by Scene_Cast2 »

Awesome. I'd love if Flutter could also finally get Impeller on Web (I'm tracking the GitHub issues, seems like there's progress at least).

I personally would like for it to pick up some ideas from Svelte.

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Post by monocasa »

matchbok3 wrote: post #16
gumby271 wrote: post #10

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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?

Google AdSense uses it.

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Post by kllrnohj »

gumby271 wrote: post #10
jimbob45 wrote: post #2

Of all the myriad projects from Google, how is Flutter/Dart the one that survived the axe? I’m not saying I hate them - I think they’re both really neat - I just don’t understand why Google keeps these limping along with weak support and no clear vision within their broader web ecosystem.

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.

> Flutter has completely replaced it's rendering engine across all platforms

And that new rendering engine is also why apps like Immich are unable to show HDR photos. Apple & Google both pushed broad support for that a couple years ago, with things like Ultra HDR and subsequently ISO 21496-1.

Meanwhile Flutter still doesn't really have wide gamut support https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/189155

Of course they need to prioritize where to spend resources, like any project, but Flutter also doesn't seem to be on any critical path for fancy headlining new features, either.

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Post by vips7L »

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?

The creator of flutter was on here saying that 1/3 of all apps on the App Store use it. That seems to be a lot more than “nobody”.

Re: Flutter 3.47

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Post by Humphrey »

Oh finally multi-window support - I might finally be able to flutter for a simple desktop app side project I've been wanting to build.
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