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I just can't stand Electron based applications at all. I can't stand JavaScript actually, but that's something different entirely. I'm really looking forward t

by movedx 9y ago

I just can't stand Electron based applications at all. I can't stand JavaScript actually, but that's something different entirely. I'm really looking forward to learning Flutter (https://flutter.io https://flutter.io) so I can finally do some mobile based application development in a cross platform manner without having to use JavaScript. Prior to Flutter I was considering Swift and Kotlin and just maintaining two code bases (and two languages.) Hopefully I won't need to now. On desktops I would just go native. Is it really that hard to maintain several code bases? Is there literally no other options at all? I'm considering Go + QT here, or something along those lines.

mathw 9y ago
I've been playing with Flutter and it seems pretty good. Dart isn't too hard to get your head around and isn't too annoying, although I do find myself disappointed that I have to learn yet another language for it. I don't have a particular problem with learning languages, but it's another speedbump on the way. And Dart is about a million times better than JS for the way I like to think about code.
- movedx 9y ago
  Glad to hear it! I'm looking forward to giving it a try, but right now I'm hooked on Lua and Corona! Ha! :)
Per_Bothner 9y ago
Using JavaScript to implement a terminal emulator makes sense if you take advantage of html/css. If it's just to implement a conventional terminal emulator, it may be difficult to justify the perforance/memory costs. But html/css does enable a lot of neat features, such as embedded graphics, css styling, etc. I think for DomTerm the features justify the costs: https://opensource.com/article/18/1/introduction-domterm-terminal-emulator https://opensource.com/article/18/1/introduction-domterm-ter...