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People ask a lot of questions about Flutter on Stack Overflow because: 1. Flutter's docs are missing a lot of critical information. For example, try understan
by mleonhard 5y ago
People ask a lot of questions about Flutter on Stack Overflow because:
1. Flutter's docs are missing a lot of critical information. For example, try understanding the docs on the Navigator 2.0 API or finding out how to make an app launch screen.
2. Flutter is missing a lot of critical functionality. For example, try writing an integration test for a Flutter app [0]. You can't because the tooling is broken and Flutter Team refuses to fix it. Or try adding a keyboard dismiss button to your iOS app [1]. Also, when debugging Dart code, there is no way to inspect scheduled async tasks, so debugging concurrency issues is excruciating work.
Flutter Team has made little progress on mobile functionality in the last two years. For example, dark mode on iOS was left half implemented, with widgets requiring complicated workarounds to even be visible in dark mode [2].
Flutter's version number is 2.10 but for iOS it is actually a pre-1.0 product.
Flutter Team seems to have abandoned Flutter mobile and is entirely focused on web and desktop now.
I'm a solo entrepreneur and I regret choosing Flutter for my mobile app.
[0] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/45076 https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/45076 (Flutter Team member added some missing functionality, ignored the most important missing functionality, closed the issue, then the bot auto-locked it.)
[1] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/88549#issuecomment-907900713 https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/88549#issuecomment...
[2] https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/80860 https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/80860
- mixmastamyk 5y agoSorry to hear that. Although it still sounds better than the kivy situation.