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I think as Flutter matures it will change the game for native development. I'm building an app now for a well known startup and are converting their native code

I think as Flutter matures it will change the game for native development. I'm building an app now for a well known startup and are converting their native codebases to Flutter. What is interesting is that I was able to compile the app to web with no extra work and now use that as an easy way to demo things to my client. From a cross-platform perspective that changes the game for me along with being able to build desktop apps easily and relatively efficiently (compared to Electron).

rajeevk 6y ago
I see this on dark.dev for web "Warning: While in development, web support is available in the beta channel" What is your experience? Is it OK to use this is in production app. Right now I need a web and desktop app and curious to know if Flutter can be used. But I see the Flutter web is beta quality and Flutter desktop is alpha quality as of now
- alex_reg 6y ago
  Flutter Web does it's own rendering via canvas, so accessibility is off the table for now and there is no easy path to get there. That alone should kill it for most production use unless it's an internal tool. ("should" because many apps sadly just don't care) edit: I was wrong, see below. Glad to be wrong actually, because Flutter is great.
  - mhoad 6y ago
    That isn’t true and hasn’t been for a while. It’s nowhere near “web native” still but it is yet to even get a non beta release so I will give it some slack. But I think Flutter is probably the best hope out there right now for the ever elusive dream of write once and run anywhere with native performance.
  - discreteevent 6y ago
    Apparently this is not true. It does support accessibility. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24922849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24922849
pjmlp 6y ago
When it provides a Delphi RAD tooling experience maybe. And just like Delphi, it will suffer that although Dart is a general purpose language, its only reason for existence will be Flutter applications.

rajeevk 6y ago

I see this on dark.dev for web "Warning: While in development, web support is available in the beta channel" What is your experience? Is it OK to use this is in production app. Right now I need a web and desktop app and curious to know if Flutter can be used. But I see the Flutter web is beta quality and Flutter desktop is alpha quality as of now

alex_reg 6y ago
Flutter Web does it's own rendering via canvas, so accessibility is off the table for now and there is no easy path to get there. That alone should kill it for most production use unless it's an internal tool. ("should" because many apps sadly just don't care) edit: I was wrong, see below. Glad to be wrong actually, because Flutter is great.
- mhoad 6y ago
  That isn’t true and hasn’t been for a while. It’s nowhere near “web native” still but it is yet to even get a non beta release so I will give it some slack. But I think Flutter is probably the best hope out there right now for the ever elusive dream of write once and run anywhere with native performance.
- discreteevent 6y ago
  Apparently this is not true. It does support accessibility. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24922849 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24922849

pjmlp 6y ago

When it provides a Delphi RAD tooling experience maybe. And just like Delphi, it will suffer that although Dart is a general purpose language, its only reason for existence will be Flutter applications.