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Re: Flutter 3

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I like and use Flutter myself, I recommend others use it as well if you see other comments in my profile, but one thing that annoys me is that it feels as if the major updates are coming too fast, in a way. As in, they say things like Flutter Web are now "stable" but if you actually use them, you'll find that they are clearly not stable. Windows was mentioned to be stable in the last release, but it too has issues. I…

The Linux version is bad too.

Re: Flutter 3

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I was recently tasked to build a mobile app at my work, that would have maybe 5% of the feature-set of our gargantuan web product. However, this 5% was mission critical. Coming from React-TS, building with Flutter was a bit weird at first (where's my CSS???) but the productivity gains came quickly. The Pub ecosystem is fairly mature, in that all the third party packages are pretty high quality and address most common…

I'm also used to functional programming. The only thing I can not stand about Dart is that types are coupled to classes. If you want to use stateless functions and typed data shapes, you're out of luck. Compare this to TypeScript that truly allows both paradigms and has a very expressive type system.

Doesn’t `typedef` let you specify arbitrary type aliases for pretty much anything in Dart? Or are you talking about something else? For my own curiosity, can you provide an example of Typescript vs Dart in this case?
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