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by cageface 3y ago
Most likely they’re not using the new impeller rendering engine. My flutter app is very smooth on iOS and I didn’t have to put in any fancy hacks to make it that way.
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by cageface 3y ago
The dart ecosystem is way richer than I expected it to be. So far I've found good options for everything I need and in more than a few cases the libraries are better designed than the JS equivalents. I can't speak to Linux desktop
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by cageface 3y ago
It works well enough. It's a bit of a hassle to set up and you have to always run the file watcher and add the `part "blah.g.dart"` imports. I wouldn't say it's held me back but I'd be happier if the language i
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by cageface 3y ago
After years of working in Typescript I've been doing a Dart project for the last 6 months or so. Overall it's a great language but one of the clunky aspects is the use of code generation for so many things. If this can reduce or e
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by cageface 3y ago
Two of the worst colleagues I ever had also went on to thrive at Google. It’s been hard for me to take their claims of only hiring the best since then.
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by cageface 3y ago
I did about 8 years of native iOS development. I’ll never go back to that. As frustrating as the web can be I’ll take that over being locked into a single platform proprietary toolkit.
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by cageface 3y ago
I've had good experiences with Flutter on both mobile platforms and Mac desktop. After doing several React Native apps over the years Flutter feels better engineered across the board. It would certainly be my first choice for a cross p
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by cageface 3y ago
Yeah there are options already. Swinsian and Doppler are also pretty good. But I think there's still room for improvement.
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by cageface 3y ago
Yes but I think there is room for improvement.
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by cageface 3y ago
A significant minority do. Bandcamp cleared $20 million in profit in 2022: https://www.fastcompany.com/90951664/bandcamp-spotify-vinyl-...
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by cageface 3y ago
I'm working on a desktop music player for Mac that does support flac. It should be ready for release early next year. FLAC is great because it's future proof. You can transcode to other formats as needed but keep a lossless archiv
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by cageface 3y ago
It looks like with Qobuz you only get one chance to download your purchased downloads? If you lose the files there's no way to download them again?
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by cageface 3y ago
I assume artists do get a bigger cut on Bandcamp but unfortunately it looks like Bandcamp is in dire straits. So I'm doing my best to support the remaining independent music stores.
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by cageface 3y ago
bleep and boomkat are good for electronic music.
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by cageface 3y ago
Very interesting that he plans to continue working on Flutter after leaving Google: https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627532&count=1 I agree with him that Flutter is on a good trajectory.
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by cageface 3y ago
It's more like making safe nukes. One person can do a lot more damage with AI than they can with a gun.
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by cageface 3y ago
I now ignore all Ron Amadeo articles on Ars. I don’t know where his disdain for Google originated but his predictably snarky dismissals of all things Google are just bad and lazy journalism.
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by cageface 3y ago
I think your overall velocity with Flutter is going to be much higher than QT. The dev experience is so much nicer. You are going to have to be willing to stick your neck out a bit though, that’s true.
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by cageface 3y ago
The vision of Swift as a truly cross platform, modern language Apple laid out in the initial announcement was genuinely exciting. Unfortunately it seems like they didn't really mean it.
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by cageface 3y ago
I think flutter is emerging as a compelling alternative for cross platform desktop development. I’m building a desktop app in it now and so far the experience has been quite positive.
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by cageface 3y ago
No so far I've had a great experience with it. But keeping up with new improvements and changes to the underlying platforms is going to require ongoing investment. Hopefully google continues to think it's worth it.
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by cageface 3y ago
This doesn't match my experience at all. It's leagues ahead of react native in memory usage, disk space, responsiveness etc. Users are used to apps that don't look much like the out of the box platform toolkit by now. Even ap
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by cageface 3y ago
Flutter is actually pretty close to this right now. I'm building an app that targets Windows, Mac, iOS and Android and so far it's working really well on all of them with more than 90% code reuse. If Google doesn't give up on
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by cageface 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of plastic phones. Lighter, cheaper and who can tell the difference if it's in a case?
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by cageface 3y ago
Now more than ever I think it's important to support small, independent music sellers. I buy a lot from Bleep and Boomkat but there are a lot of other good options too.
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by cageface 3y ago
Significant whitespace is a mistake people keep making over and over again for some reason.
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by cageface 3y ago
It’s a great language but it hasn’t really found a killer app yet outside of Android development and Java has improved a lot recently so the incentive to switch to Kotlin is reduced. I’d like to see it thrive but I’m not optimistic.
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by cageface 3y ago
It’s a legitimate concern but so far my experience on iOS has been quite good. They’ve put a lot of effort into polishing iOS performance recently.
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by cageface 3y ago
I started building a Flutter app recently and so far I’ve been quite impressed. The ecosystem is surprisingly mature and dev velocity has been good even though I’m learning a new language and framework at the same time. On a purely technolo
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by cageface 3y ago
I used to favor the web for the same reasons but the churn in web technology is at least as bad in mobile. The knowledge I had three years ago is almost useless now. And on top of that you have to deal with a platform that is really a big p

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