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Can they catch up? I feel the reason why web apps took off is because so much money has been spent on the underlying technologies (HTML, CSS, etc.) that makes t
by thrashh 6y ago
Can they catch up? I feel the reason why web apps took off is because so much money has been spent on the underlying technologies (HTML, CSS, etc.) that makes them extremely powerful.
I’ve used a lot of UI frameworks and getting to do anything complex is always much harder than doing the equivalent in HTML/CSS/etc.
- IshKebab 6y agoI think so. Web has the advantage of already catering to literally every layout & style use case (grid, multiple columns, floats, inline elements, etc. etc. etc.). But Flutter has the advantage of being designed from scratch so it can avoid all the idiotic mistakes the CSS made (e.g. box-sizing, the insane difficulty of centering things, etc.). I don't think it will take too long for the niceness of a sane design to outweigh the lack of features. The only thing I'm not convinced about is that Flutter-web will ever be viable for most web pages (i.e. non-app ones). It kind of works but it's big and slow. Probably eventually people will do a native website, and then use Flutter for mobile and desktop.
- pjmlp 6y agoSomething that one can easily do even with Motif and Windows Forms, just learn the layout APIs to start with.