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by millsteed 2y ago
Have a look at Flutter.
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by millsteed 3y ago
I think it’s Adorn Roman by Laura Worthington.
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by millsteed 3y ago
I mainly just trust Bob Nystrom ( https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=munificent ) to keep this thing on the rails. He's an excellent language designer.
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by millsteed 3y ago
Exactly. I use it for a full stack mobile app development. Backend and frontend can share code. Server can be compiled to a single machine code binary.
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by millsteed 3y ago
Don't discount the developer experience too. With the codegen annotations, you either have to check in your .g.dart files to git which could be stale and break compilation in CI, or have them generate in CI, which is unnecessarily slow
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by millsteed 3y ago
Yeah, it is. It inspired the reflection in Dart, which inspired the macros. You can only use Dart's reflection when running in VM mode though. Flutter apps use AOT compilation, due to tree-shaking, so you lose the reflection and fall b
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by millsteed 3y ago
Yeah, I get that. I think they were burned by having to do https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html and https://google.github.io/styleguide/javaguide.html .
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by millsteed 3y ago
Thanks for linking the spec. It has been a living document for a long time. I discovered that the implementation had made it into the SDK's master branch. Since it's very early stage and lacking documentation, I made this repo whi
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Dart/Flutter now has macros/metaprogramming(github.com)
122 points by millsteed 3y ago|124 comments
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Orathan: Cloud Without the Rent(orathan.com)
1 points by millsteed 3y ago|0 comments
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Orathan: Cloud Without the Rent(orathan.com)
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by millsteed 3y ago
Cloud costs have not kept up with Moore's Law and it is cheaper per year to own bare metal servers. Most developers just want to build their app and not worry about sysadmin. The cloud provides nice abstractions like consoles, CLIs and