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I'm kinda surprised that everything "just works" for Flutter, even on Windows and Linux, which the official documentation seems to say are still in alpha stages

by SZJX 6y ago

I'm kinda surprised that everything "just works" for Flutter, even on Windows and Linux, which the official documentation seems to say are still in alpha stages and might be subject to breaking changes in the future. I also couldn't find ways to easily implement things I want, e.g. native Mac MenuBar bindings/Mac App Store payment library etc. Eventually I ended up using Quasar https://quasar.dev/ https://quasar.dev/, which allows you to use one Vue.js codebase but deploy to Cordova on mobile and Electron on desktop. Vue is definitely not the prettiest solution out there, but I had to be practical and actually get the app out. Maybe I'm just one year too early for React Native/Flutter ecosystem to be developed enough for my app. The landscape is certainly changing rapidly, which is good.

satvikpendem 6y ago
Yes, Flutter is useful for when you have GUI heavy apps, not necessarily ones with platform integration like menu bars and cameras, although that is progressing pretty well I'd say, people are writing plugins for platform capabilities. Regarding Windows and Linux, I too was surprised at how well everything worked. You can't build to production yet for these two platforms (officially at least, see flutter-rs for unofficial implementations), but the debug builds still work as well as the Android and iOS emulators. I used them on a lower powered machine to run my Flutter apps and it was great that they worked well.