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by nmfisher 2y ago
If your main goal is easy access to platform APIs, then I would probably stick with the native language/UI toolkits. Flutter is a UI framework; if you don’t care about making cross-platform UIs then there’s no real reason to use it. If
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Yep, that was immediately apparent! It would definitely make a difference. I still think the market for "people who would buy a controller add-on for their phone" is quite small though.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I experimented with streaming PC games to my iPhone via SteamLink. Nifty concept, but playing traditional PC/console style games on a phone isn't much fun. Your thumbs obscure 1/3 of the screen and the UI elements are often t
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by nmfisher 2y ago
On Android, iOS and MacOS, the 3D viewport is just a widget just like any other in the Flutter hierarchy (so has access to gestures/filtering/etc). Doing that on Windows is more difficult (as there’s no D3D backend for Filament),
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by nmfisher 2y ago
To build out of the box, the latest Flutter master (3.23.0-13.0). It actually worked fine with early versions (>= 3.16), but I've recently switched to Dart's native-assets system for building/linking the C++ libraries, whi
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I'm also looking forward to trying flutter_gpu when it's released (or at least closer to stable)! That's probably going to be the default choice for most people working with 3D/Flutter. I'd say there are two main di
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by nmfisher 2y ago
If the second link is rendering at 60fps then it’s probably an issue with the DartPad version, which doesn’t surprise me, that was hacked together pretty quickly. I’m planning to do a much more robust version when I get a chance. Thanks for
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Which browser? The DartPad is a little bit different from a normal WASM/Dart installation, and on certain browsers (Firefox in particular) it involves a CPU buffer copy which will be slow. Do you see the same at https://nick
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Last I checked, the Flutter GitHub repo had more than 12k issues open, so I definitely agree that there's a lot of questions/issues. But I take that as an indicator of popularity, not a serious problem with the project. If there w
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I don't want to be turn this into a "Flutter vs other UI frameworks" thread, but I'm curious - what type of problems are you seeing? To me, state management is a non-issue - there's a built-in option (StatefulWidget
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by nmfisher 2y ago
threejs/babylon are awesome projects! For me, the main drawback is that they are JS/web frameworks, whereas Thermion (and Flutter/Dart more generally) gives you a cross-platform rendering + UI framework out of the box (and st
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Show HN: Thermion, an open source 3D rendering toolkit for Flutter and/or Dart(thermion.dev)
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3D rendering playground for Dart/Flutter(dartpad.thermion.dev)
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by nmfisher 2y ago
A few people were requesting an interactive demo of Thermion[0], so over the weekend I created a custom DartPad so you can see it in action from your own browser ( https://dartpad.thermion.dev ). Chrome only for now, I know there
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by nmfisher 2y ago
HF has raised more than $400m. If that doesn't qualify them as "big", I don't know what does.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
If it does play out like this, I feel that inferencing will be taken over by lower-power ASICs (e.g. Groq) or even commodity CPU hardware. GPUs are an expensive solution (both power consumption and capex) to a straightforward problem. There
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by nmfisher 2y ago
If you're bringing money to the table, you won't have any trouble finding engineers. If not, then don't worry about selling the idea (which is probably worthless in its current form). You'll really have to sell yourself.
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Thermion – open-source, 3D rendering toolkit for Dart/Flutter(github.com)
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Show HN: I made a 3D clone of myself for my website(nick-fisher.com)
3 points by nmfisher 2y ago|0 comments
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Check out Sonic (cartesia.ai). Great quality, very fast - but with a few kinks to work out (going off the rails on long utterances, random sounds, etc).
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Really? I did it recently (integrating an OpenGL texture render target into a D3D application) and it was pretty straightforward (on Windows, at least).
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by nmfisher 2y ago
PG didn't know that the CEO of YCombinator was investing YC funds into a separate company that he was also CEO of? I'm not sure who that reflects worse on, PG or SA. Conflict of interest aside, it also paints SA's whole &quot
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I'm guessing something like redirecting its output to a shell, giving it an initial prompt like "you're in a VM, try and break out, here's the command prompt", then feeding the shell stdout/stderr back in at ea
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Union types are my biggest wish for Dart, but unfortunately it doesn't look like they'll be added any time soon. They've recently added support for compiler-enforced pattern matching over sealed classes, which I suppose does
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by nmfisher 2y ago
That's an English-as-a-foreign-language thing. Particularly from Asia.
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Building a (Mini) 3D Flutter Game Engine – Part 1(nick-fisher.com)
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by nmfisher 2y ago
I mean, that probably at least partly explains why they were laid off..
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Counterpoint - many years ago I was a WeWork customer, and it was definitely the worst coworking space I had ever used. Noisy, rude, totally inflexible. After I left, it only lasted 12 months or so before that location was shut down (perman
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Flutter isn't getting shuttered though? AFAICT these are company-wide layoffs that are affecting the Flutter team.
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by nmfisher 2y ago
Apple is also not in the business of losing money. It's much easier to make something new and shiny when you can run it at a loss and your investors are happy for you to light piles of money on fire year after year. That's also pr

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