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If that were true wouldn't we be seeing a big increase in Dart adoption because of Flutter as well? I'm not seeing it.
by gman83 6y ago
If that were true wouldn't we be seeing a big increase in Dart adoption because of Flutter as well? I'm not seeing it.
- stu_k 6y agoAlthough it technically has cross platform GUI, Flutter has actually reimplemented all the native OS widgets. As soon as the OS changes some look and feel your app will look out of date.
- vijaybritto 6y agoYes it will look out of date. But whats important? A functioning app or good looking one? We all know that websites written for ie6 are out there today making millions in revenue. It always comes down to the functionality not the looks
- akmittal 6y agoIt probably will be good looking just wont be aesthatically consistent with new OS looks.
- DagAgren 6y agoBoth. If you have only one, you have a shit product nobody wants.
- vijaybritto 6y agoI'm not advocating for garbage looking products. All I'm saying is that lets be tolerant on looks because functionality matters the most
- zapzupnz 6y agoYou can be as tolerant as you want, that's not how things go for iOS apps. It's certainly not how things go on macOS except when there are no available alternatives. Windows, Android, and the web, constantly changing so that there's never really been any sense of stability, blind a lot of developers to the fact that good design is both functionality AND looks. When people complain about designs of controls being out of date, they don't only refer to looks. They refer to how they feel, behave — or more succinctly, don't correspond to the expectations set up by the rest of the system. To reduce the debate down to looks vs. functionality is reducing things down to the wrong level, missing the forest for the trees, and ignoring the user — a person who often isn't able to express what they need but knows what they want, not often realising that they're the same thing.
- michaelcampbell 6y ago> But whats important? A functioning app or good looking one? Depends on your audience.
- vijaybritto 6y agoFlutter is one of the fastest growing frameworks for the past two years and therefore dart too. It most likely will succeed cause of this pace and the community growing around it. When flutter for desktop lands into beta I think it will pick up even more pace and would be very hard to ignore for a lot of companies.
- GordonS 6y agoIMO Flutter would have received far wider adoption now if it used Typescript instead of flogging the dead Dart horse.
- vijaybritto 6y agoBut how will you give the same level of performance in a dynamic language? Typescript is only for type safety. It's still JS at the end. Dart is more modern with a VM during development and AOT compilation for production.
- BiteCode_dev 6y agoSwift is already way more popular than dart though. But Swift doesn't run on Android, does it?
- vlozko 6y agoIt does. It has been able to for some time now. A team I’ve worked with used it to build a cross-platform library. Swift wasn’t the first choice but the short story was they didn’t choose C++ because they didn’t want to hire C++ devs to maintain it.
- monocularvision 6y agoDid the team look at Kotlin? Seems like Kotlin Native on iOS is a more viable alternative than Swift on Android right now for cross-platform development.
- michaelbrave 6y agoIf that library is open source I'd love to take a look at it.