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> Target All The Linux Distributions If you are going through the trouble of targeting all Linux distributions, why not just target all platforms by using a f
by danans 3y ago
> Target All The Linux Distributions
If you are going through the trouble of targeting all Linux distributions, why not just target all platforms by using a framework like Flutter or React?
- zb3 3y agoI hope nobody will take your comment seriously, because the performance of these is horrible compared to "truly" native apps
- danans 3y agoI've seen few apps anymore whose performance is bounded it by the choice of UI framework. If they're slow, it's usually because of design choices, like making common user interactions wait to retrieve data. Yes, games are an exception. But for the majority of software that is concerned with displaying text, it doesn't matter a hill of beans if you use a cross platform framework. We're far past the days of slow Java AWT apps.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoThen you are stuck using basically a browser wrapper for your UI, which frankly sucks for performance and native integration most of the time. The move to making everything a webapp is great for development velocity right until you smash into one of the many, many corner cases where it sucks.
- danans 3y ago> Then you are stuck using basically a browser wrapper for your UI, AFAIK, Flutter compiles to native code, no browser needed.
- fullspectrumdev 3y agoI may have to give Flutter another look, I’ve gotten rather pessimistic about modern UI stuff lately :)