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What do you think about Flutter?
« on: March 04, 2018, 11:34:59 pm »
https://hackernoon.com/whats-revolutionary-about-flutter-946915b09514

I used react native only once, my application was working fine, and from a second to another it was not working anymore, I can't find the error, the emulator just give a nonsense error, so I get away. Is faster, but not as easy to debug for me.

So I switch to web views, but are really slow, and you must have a propper WebView installed, so problems in older Android versions.

I was seing the Dart language (https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf) that Flutter uses, and is like JavaScript but also like Pascal, and it is becoming fully strong typed.

So the good parts of JavaScript, and the good typed programming (And not like TypeScript, that's good for me).

Plus something that I'm fammiliar with

new Center(
  child: new Column(
    children: [
      new Text('Hello, World!')),
      new Icon(Icons.star, color: Colors.green)
    ]
  )
)

That looks a lot like creating UI in Lazarus, a single parent, a container, and things inside. Not complex CSS.

Someone tested it already? What do you think, this will success?
« Last Edit: March 05, 2018, 12:43:38 am by lainz »

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Re: What do you think about Flutter?
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2018, 09:53:25 am »
i did not test it but installed it in Android Studio in a virtual machine (have an issue with emulator start on Mint 18.3).
as i understood it allows shrinking the code base when having a web app also, around 50% being common to web and mobile.
excellent documentation. awesome layouts and no hiccups from JavaScript.
i am moving in this direction, yes.
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Re: What do you think about Flutter?
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2018, 03:15:43 pm »
It reminds me a bit of how TV instantiated dialogs, in long chained code statements. That is so 90ties :-)

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Re: What do you think about Flutter?
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2018, 10:00:44 pm »
i did not test it but installed it in Android Studio in a virtual machine (have an issue with emulator start on Mint 18.3).
as i understood it allows shrinking the code base when having a web app also, around 50% being common to web and mobile.
excellent documentation. awesome layouts and no hiccups from JavaScript.
i am moving in this direction, yes.

I will try it too.  :)

It reminds me a bit of how TV instantiated dialogs, in long chained code statements. That is so 90ties :-)

Never seen that, so I don't get it.

But yes, seems that is nothing new under the sun. Like live reload is already there for web, now a bit better for Android.
« Last Edit: March 05, 2018, 10:09:36 pm by lainz »

 

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