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by cageface 3y ago
I think this has potential but if I were starting an app today I’d pick a more mature technology like React Native or Flutter.
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by cageface 3y ago
I’ve been working remote since 2010 with teams all over the world. People that are reliable and productive and that communicate well are very hard to find and are still in short supply. We made good money cleaning up messes caused by cheap
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by cageface 3y ago
Which are your favorites?
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by cageface 3y ago
I guess you better let Apple know so they don’t accidentally make a Flutter app their app of the day again: https://flutter.dev/showcase/so-vegan
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by cageface 3y ago
Sure it’s a valid concern. I’m building my own app so hiring isn’t a concern for me. So far I’ve found the Flutter library ecosystem to be more than adequate for my needs and I’m finding it a far more pleasant and productive platform than R
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by cageface 3y ago
Typescript is a safe bet. I think for mobile apps Flutter is a better tech stack than React Native though and can survive if Google doesn’t give up on it.
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by cageface 3y ago
I happily made the switch from Obj-C to Swift when it was announced, partly because Apple said they wanted to make it a true cross platform language. So far that doesn't seem to have really happened and in the meantime I've switch
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by cageface 3y ago
No need to actually read any Google articles by Ron Amadeo. They are all cut from the same smug, snarky dismissive cloth. Ars can and should try harder.
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by cageface 3y ago
Ron Amadeo has such a consistently snarky anti Google stance that I no longer read his articles. I haven't seen any other tech company get such dismissive treatment on Ars.
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by cageface 3y ago
I think it's also worth keeping in mind that a lot of important open source tech has originated at Google. Without Google we wouldn't have NodeJS, Electron, Kubernetes, Go, Flutter etc. None of the other big tech companies have ma
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by cageface 3y ago
How is this different from any other programming language?
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by cageface 3y ago
insisting on simultaneous and equal action really is suggesting we do nothing. Nobody is insisting on _simultaneous and equal_ action. Obviously that is not realistic. But in an industry as volatile and dynamic as tech remedies do need to
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by cageface 3y ago
I'm not saying they all need to be addressed at once . But they should be addressed close together otherwise it's just the government picking market winners. Technology moves fast. If you force Google to reorg and then it takes 5
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by cageface 3y ago
I'll applaud antitrust action if it's applied fairly across the industry. Kneecapping Google without also going after Microsoft, Apple and Meta will only make things worse for consumers.
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by cageface 3y ago
I think it really comes down to Google's level of commitment to Flutter. They've done a lot of great work so far and I think it could easily become the first choice for cross platform app development if they investing in it to the
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by cageface 3y ago
I just started building a new app in Flutter too after working exclusively in React for the last several years. I'm not sure I'd use Flutter for the web yet but I definitely prefer it to React Native.
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by cageface 3y ago
I've been developing a desktop app in Flutter and so far my experience has been quite positive. It uses a fraction of the disk space and memory that a comparable electron app would and it's overall a much nicer UI toolkit than htm
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by cageface 3y ago
For a lot of things you don't need an app. A responsive website, maybe with some PWA features, is good enough. Building and maintaining a separate API and a mobile app is a huge amount of work. The pendulum is swinging back from buildi
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by cageface 3y ago
This 100x. A VIPER codebase I inherited for some client work a few years ago was perhaps the most cumbersome and tedious codebase I’ve ever had to work with. Needless to say they missed their launch window and market opportunity.
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by cageface 3y ago
Thanks this is a great example of the kind of problem you run into with OO designs. State is a graph and you very often need to transform a whole subgraph of it in one operation. Traditional OO makes this very difficult.
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by cageface 3y ago
In non trivial code you often need to make coherent atomic updates across a whole section of your state graph. This is very difficult when the code to update state is fragmented across many classes. For me this is where OO really falls down
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by cageface 3y ago
As expected this dumb take shows up in every tailwind thread. Almost always by people that haven’t actually tried it. I was skeptical at first too but after building several large and successful sites with tailwind I’ll now choose it every
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by cageface 3y ago
This is one of the nicest things about Flutter. Out of the box you get most of the things you need to build an app. There's a lot of competition for state managers but other than that you have a lot fewer choices you have to make to ge
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by cageface 3y ago
You mean Flutter web apps? The web version of Flutter is not as mature as the other platforms. It's nice to have as an option but I wouldn't choose Flutter today if the web is your primary deployment target.
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by cageface 3y ago
Sort of. It adds a lot of layers on top of the core components and isn't just vanilla native UI plus some tweaks. React Native apps still stick out compared to real native apps unless you put in a fair amount of extra work.
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by cageface 3y ago
The plus side is that Google can develop Dart alongside the framework. This allows some nice things like excellent hot loading support, fast AOT compilation for release builds, a GC tuned for UI work, etc that would be harder or even imposs
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by cageface 3y ago
I recently had an idea for an app that would work on Mac, Windows, iOS and Android (and maybe even Linux). After considering the options I decided to prototype it in Flutter and so far I've been pleasantly surprised. Despite having to
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by cageface 3y ago
Dart has been evolving rapidly. It remains to be seen if Google will stay committed to it but you can hardly call it dead today. https://medium.com/dartlang/announcing-dart-3-53f065a10635
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by cageface 3y ago
I recently started building my first Flutter app and overall I've found it to be surprisingly pleasant. I've had no trouble finding good packages for features I need and even though I'm learning the language and APIs as I go
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by cageface 3y ago
Skepticism of Google's commitment to anything is warranted although it's also worth keeping in mind that they do have some long lived developer oriented projects as well (Android & Android Studio, Angular, Dart, Go, V8 etc). T

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