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Yeah—the news that Fuchsia was embracing Flutter as the main way to develop applications was when my interest in it when from very high, to middling. May as wel
by brimble 5y ago
Yeah—the news that Fuchsia was embracing Flutter as the main way to develop applications was when my interest in it when from very high, to middling. May as well just be web apps at that point, for how they burn resources, latency, and overall feel. I was excited by the promise of an open-source QNX-like OS with a GUI layer that's not a complete mess (like the Unix-alike open source world's is) but it seems like they're heading toward something closer to ChromeOS, which I emphatically do not want.
- surajrmal 5y agoFlutter is the easiest way to write GUI applications on Fuchsia today, but by no means the only one. There already exists a Wayland to Scenic translation layer. Adding support to Gnome or KDE is totally possible. There is even a rust GUI framework under development in the fuchsia codebase called Carnelian. Like Linux, there is no concept of native platform widgets on Fuchsia. It is up to a product developer to build up those types of layers. The Workstation product may build up such a toolkit of native widgets, but that won't bound the possibilities of what you can do with Fuchsia.