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Flutter seems to gain momentum and developpers seems to love it. As it matures, I could see it replacing Electron for desktop apps eventually.

by remir 6y ago

rychco 6y ago
Related to this, has anyone compared the performance of flutter desktop apps to electron apps? I’m not experienced in flutter/dart, but would love to see an accessible & performant alternative to electron on the desktop.
- tracker1 6y ago
  Likely depends on the app specifics... but likely a bit lighter on resources for dart/flutter over electron. That said, VS Code absolutely shows what can be done in an Electron based app that works well and is very responsive for it's breadth.
  - remir 6y ago
    Sadly, Microsoft Teams is also an Electron app and boy is it sluggish. Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to optimize it past a certain point.
ppeetteerr 6y ago
Google trends disagrees: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=flutter https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... hehe ;)
- anton96 6y ago
  If I can compare to react-native,flutter seems higher. Electron which is used widely used is the least search term. Interesting enough, react-native and electron distinguish themselves in the Est coast and always miss the Wyoming or the Dakota's while flutter is more evenly distributed. Which would mean that the higher flutter level might just be google cannot distinguish between the common name and the framwork.Yet the flutter trend is growing so it's certainly the framework or climate change side effect :D . https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=flutter,%2Fg%2F11h03gfxy9,%2Fg%2F11bw_559wr https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
  - ppeetteerr 6y ago
    Well played. Flutter does seem to be the top-dog in cross-platform development (even when adding Xamarin) but it's a Google product, so use at your own peril.
  - timsneath 6y ago
    Another interesting external metric is StackOverflow, which suggests a fast rise in developer interest for Flutter, relative to other technologies aiming at this space: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=flutter%2Creact-native%2Ccordova%2Cxamarin%2Celectron%2Cswiftui%2Cangular https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=flutter%2Crea...

Flutter seems to gain momentum and developpers seems to love it. As it matures, I could see it replacing Electron for desktop apps eventually.

by remir 6y ago

Flutter seems to gain momentum and developpers seems to love it. As it matures, I could see it replacing Electron for desktop apps eventually.

rychco 6y ago

Related to this, has anyone compared the performance of flutter desktop apps to electron apps? I’m not experienced in flutter/dart, but would love to see an accessible & performant alternative to electron on the desktop.

tracker1 6y ago
Likely depends on the app specifics... but likely a bit lighter on resources for dart/flutter over electron. That said, VS Code absolutely shows what can be done in an Electron based app that works well and is very responsive for it's breadth.
- remir 6y ago
  Sadly, Microsoft Teams is also an Electron app and boy is it sluggish. Microsoft doesn't seem to be able to optimize it past a certain point.

ppeetteerr 6y ago

Google trends disagrees: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=flutter https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... hehe ;)

anton96 6y ago
If I can compare to react-native,flutter seems higher. Electron which is used widely used is the least search term. Interesting enough, react-native and electron distinguish themselves in the Est coast and always miss the Wyoming or the Dakota's while flutter is more evenly distributed. Which would mean that the higher flutter level might just be google cannot distinguish between the common name and the framwork.Yet the flutter trend is growing so it's certainly the framework or climate change side effect :D . https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=flutter,%2Fg%2F11h03gfxy9,%2Fg%2F11bw_559wr https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge...
- ppeetteerr 6y ago
  Well played. Flutter does seem to be the top-dog in cross-platform development (even when adding Xamarin) but it's a Google product, so use at your own peril.
- timsneath 6y ago
  Another interesting external metric is StackOverflow, which suggests a fast rise in developer interest for Flutter, relative to other technologies aiming at this space: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=flutter%2Creact-native%2Ccordova%2Cxamarin%2Celectron%2Cswiftui%2Cangular https://insights.stackoverflow.com/trends?tags=flutter%2Crea...