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Flutter isn't a good Electron alternative? Flutter 2.0 just came out with desktop support for osx, windows and linux and will be the main GUI framework for Linu
by m00x 6y ago
Flutter isn't a good Electron alternative? Flutter 2.0 just came out with desktop support for osx, windows and linux and will be the main GUI framework for Linux.
- rudedogg 6y agoThere was a lot of criticism, especially of the Web version, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26332944 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26332944
- IshKebab 6y agoNot yet. Or rather, I would say you can use it for simple stuff, like Etcher then it is a reasonable choice. But you wouldn't want to use it for something like Slack yet. Some basic stuff like ctrl-Z in text fields does not work yet. Doing normal desktop things like menus and file dialogs will be a pain. That said, I am writing a Git desktop client in Flutter and I like it. But I don't expect to finish it for many years so hopefully by then they'll have ironed everything out.
- heavyset_go 6y ago> and will be the main GUI framework for Linux. That's already GTK+ and Qt, and the big GTK+ and Qt projects aren't switching over to Flutter any time soon.
- m00x 6y agoSorry, I mean Ubuntu: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-building-apps-with-flutter-in-future https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2021/03/ubuntu-building-apps-wit...