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by timsneath 8y ago
Hi there, Dart is a really versatile language for our needs: it's what powers stateful Hot Reload, for instance, because it has a powerful VM and JIT compiler that work really well for debug purposes, but also compiles natively to ARM
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by timsneath 8y ago
Thanks for the kind comments! I'm one of the product managers on the Flutter team, so you're welcome to apply suitable skepticism to anything I might say in response to your last point, but I will say that Flutter is already being
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by timsneath 8y ago
Here's a great demo if you want to see pure speed: https://medium.com/2dimensions/showcasing-the-power-of-flutt... Another new example of Flutter in action is Reflectly, which was recently featured on the Apple ap
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by timsneath 8y ago
Hi there, the source for these numbers is the StackOverflow API. Just to clarify, the chart we have in the blog is showing question _views_, not questions tagged. There are more questions for other frameworks still (since they're more
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Flutter Release Preview 2(developers.googleblog.com)
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What We’ve Learned from the July 2018 Flutter User Survey(medium.com)
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by timsneath 8y ago
Official announcement here: https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-2-stable-and-the-dart-web-p...
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What It Was Like to Write a Full-Blown Flutter App(medium.com)
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by timsneath 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm a product manager for Flutter at Google, so I'm paid to say nice things about Flutter :) Probably the two most obvious architectural differences are that a) Flutter paints every pixel on the screen, whereas React N
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by timsneath 9y ago
Yeah, we've got some work to do to fill out our set of examples. (Disclaimer: I work on the Flutter team.) - There's a catalog of simple but official examples in the Flutter repo, under the examples directory: https://g
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Announcing Dart 2: Optimized for Client-Side Development(medium.com)
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by timsneath 9y ago
Last week we announced that we'll ship a beta in the next couple of months. Flutter is pretty stable - we're just working on scenario completeness in a few areas (performance, accessibility, a few more widgets). For those who are
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by timsneath 10y ago
Hi there! Yeah, that would be rather sucky. But for what it's worth, the Redgate tools we're integrating into Visual Studio aren't time-limited trial editions - they're the real deal. We know there are raving fans of Rea
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by timsneath 10y ago
A couple of great resources on the improvements in the latest Windows 10 release are this blog post: https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/10/24/high-dpi-s... and this Channel 9 video: https:&#x2F
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by timsneath 10y ago
There's an extension to Visual Studio that adds rich PHP support, here: https://www.devsense.com/ . It's pretty good. You might watch this video to get a sense of what the full Visual Studio IDE offers for a PHP de
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by timsneath 10y ago
Try the web infographic version here: https://aka.ms/vs2017infographic
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by timsneath 10y ago
There's a five part blog series on performance improvements in VS2017 (then codenamed version "15"), here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/10/14/imp...
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Visual Studio 2017 What's New Poster(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
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by timsneath 10y ago
Great - so glad that you're up and running. Thanks for the update. We'll take this back and see if we can repro this in-house.
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by timsneath 10y ago
Unfortunately the printed logs only show what has been downloaded, not what is currently downloading. I know - that's not very helpful in this case. It would be really useful to see the more detailed logs, which are stored in the %TEMP
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by timsneath 10y ago
Thanks the report, @jasode. I'm bringing in a few folk to take a look.
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by timsneath 10y ago
A few quick thoughts on the topic of ISOs, to give you all a little extra context. 1. Visual Studio 2017 is a huge product, because we support so many types of development: from Android to UWP to C++ to Unity to Linux. If we were to still o
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by timsneath 10y ago
We have talked about it. Visual Studio is somewhat exceptional in its requirements, though: it chain installs other runtimes and platforms that update independently, it installs services and reconfigures the operating system (e.g. Hyper-V e
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by timsneath 10y ago
Yes - the release notes describes our initial capabilities on that front: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/releasenotes/vs2017-... Essentially, you can run /layout on the installer to create an of
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by timsneath 10y ago
Worth noting that we also have rich integrated tools for R developers in the full Visual Studio: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/rtvs-vs.aspx And Visual Studio Code includes the R support out of the bo
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by timsneath 11y ago
Sorry about the contributions text - that's a little unartfully expressed. Our plan in open sourcing these extensions was both to provide some useful examples of extending Visual Studio and to be a starting point for others to create a
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by timsneath 11y ago
Actually, Edge has CSS filters as of last November: https://wpdev.uservoice.com/forums/257854-microsoft-edge-dev... Test drive site here: https://dev.windows.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/testdrive