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by timsneath 4y ago
We're using Flutter for plenty of apps internally. Just yesterday we showed off Google Classroom, which has just been rewritten using Flutter for both iOS and Android. Classroom also uses Flutter for the web-based practice sets. https
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Obviously a tough week for everyone at Google. But we're looking forward to sharing our roadmap and plans at our Flutter Forward event later today: https://flutter.dev/events/flutter-forward#schedule
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I'm a pedant, I know, but I can't deal with this being called B♭ (the enharmonic equivalent for A♯), instead of D♭ (the enharmonic equivalent of C♯). Is there another layer of the joke that I'm missing?
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by timsneath 4y ago
It seems that this is a common misperception for some reason. There are certainly many charities that are ineffective at their mission, inefficient with their funds or working on a mission that few would consider worthwhile. (And there are
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by timsneath 4y ago
I don’t have canonical data to fall back on, but I suspect that DKIM and DMARC being set up are key to successful mail delivery these days, if you’re not using one of the biggest players like Gmail. I use Rackspace Mail for my personal doma
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by timsneath 4y ago
Me too. It started a whole chain of events for me: - I used the tutorial to write it in Dart ( https://github.com/timsneath/dart_console/blob/main/example/... ) - I refactored the console pieces (raw
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Interestingly, that's exactly what is going on internally at the moment with Dart code, as we migrate the Google ecosystem to sound null safety, which was introduced in Dart 2 and will be the only mode in Dart 3. Adding a feature like
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by timsneath 4y ago
There's a lot here, so perhaps you'll forgive me for not responding point by point. But to the critique that we need to be more transparent, I just want to share that we've gone so far as to share our product strategy publicl
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by timsneath 4y ago
(Disclosure: I lead PM/UX for Flutter & Dart.) For sure, anything that I could say along the lines of "we're not shutting Flutter down" might be taken as having overtones of the Baghdad Bob meme. And indeed, why shou
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This is work that is 5+ years old. Before casually dismissing work that is long in the making, it's worth taking a moment to evaluate it. There are some amazing talks in the README that Herb has given. I particularly enjoyed his "
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Unboxing a $100 Chromebook(twitter.com)
244 points by timsneath 4y ago|178 comments
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Au contraire! We're actively investigating them here on the Dart team. We're finalizing the spec here: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/98335746fb7f2dedf...
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by timsneath 4y ago
We really should update that page: looking at git blame, it hasn't been touched for several years :( I'll file an issue. Dart is used in almost every product group at Google. - The Ads team continues to grow, with hundreds of SWEs
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by timsneath 4y ago
It seems apparent to this observer that he developed cold feet pretty fast after an impetuous decision, and has been looking for any reason to back out of it since then. The spam accounts angle seems like a convenient scapegoat, rather than
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by timsneath 4y ago
It looks like they've downscaled this from being a broad feature to only available for Home edition. Comparing the Windows 10 and 11 versions of this page, Windows 10 S Mode was available for Home, Pro, Enterprise and Education, but th
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by timsneath 5y ago
Note that this article is four years old. I was trying to figure out why the language I look after (Dart) looked so bad, but then I realized that the benchmark is using a completely obsolete (now removed) approach to FFI and running all the
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Fuchsia Workstation(fuchsia.dev)
367 points by timsneath 5y ago|445 comments
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There's a good UI design environment emerging from FlutterFlow: https://flutterflow.io There's also a great Flash-like vector-based animation designer called Rive, which is itself written in Flutter (and generates code
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by timsneath 5y ago
Certainly Google sees value in Flutter, otherwise we wouldn’t fund it to the tune of 100+ engineers. But our motivations are less malevolent than you might assume. Here is our strategy doc, which we publish in the open (not many products ca
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by timsneath 5y ago
"Do your research" coupled with unsourced assertions is always an interesting argument :) As the product lead for Flutter, I can assure you that this isn't an accurate statement. The product is several years old now, and we o
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Flutter for Windows(medium.com)
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It's odd that (at the time of writing) HN commenters are so defensive about an article like this ("if you hate it so much, go back"). Perhaps it's because of the provocative title? The fact that there are rough edges on
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by timsneath 5y ago
Tim here from the Flutter team; thanks for the post. There are some good points here: in particular, that no single framework or toolkit is the "holy grail". We all live in a world of trade-offs, and anyone who claims that any sin
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by timsneath 5y ago
Flutter has comprehensive a11y support: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/accessibility-and-local... There's ongoing work on the Windows implementation here, which is tracked in https://github.
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Using Flutter to build a native-looking desktop app for macOS and Windows(blog.whidev.com)
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What's New in Flutter 2.5(medium.com)
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There are some good answers here (along with some less good ones), but I wanted to just pause to applaud you for this post. Even though HN is full of smart, data-orientated people, it's rare to see this level of self-awareness, vulnera
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I'm sure they did (a gentle reminder that we try and avoid snark on HN -- see the guidelines). This post intrigues me and piques my curiosity -- it's an interesting fork of the Intel x86 family tree that obviously didn't go a
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HP-16C “Computer Scientist” calculator simulator(new.jrpn.jovial.com)
10 points by timsneath 5y ago|1 comments
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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense for certain platforms. I've spent a lot of my career working with enterprise customers, some of whom are comfortably running 20 year old software written with something like WPF. And in general, that wou

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