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Discussion on: A few things released recently that I find interesting

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Jermaine

Also worth mentioning that Flutter code can now compile for various environments. This includes the web under what they call the Hummingbird project.

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rhymes

Would you characterize this as their attempt of building an alternative to React Native?

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Vince Ramces Oliveros

Yes/No. RN right now is decreasingly popular. If they ever surpass the new RN architecture, I wouldn't be surprised as Flutter is three step ahead to REACT.

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Jermaine

I would characterise this as an attempt at presenting another option on the market for cross-platform development. Kinda makes sense since Dart can already compile to JavaScript since day 1.

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Meghan (she/her)

Absolutely

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Vince Ramces Oliveros

There's Desktop, IoT, And many more surprises to come.

A lot of desktop embedding such as google's own desktop-embedding and go-flutter-desktop-embedding(pretty much the same). I was also shocked at the presentation powered by Flutter engine itself, I thought it was some Google Slides or something.

I'm glad I am now in the Dart side. Never ever be a dead horse project now fellas!

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Jermaine

I was also shocked at the presentation powered by Flutter engine itself, I thought it was some Google Slides or something.

Yup, the presentation was awesome. Glad I was there to witness with my own eyes ๐Ÿ‘€

Dart is returning strong. Success stories are usually preceded by a boat-load of failures.

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Ben Halpern

This is exciting!

Whatโ€™s the story for Dart running natively ever? Would this be a WebAssembly thing at this point?

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Jermaine

So from the article I linked to, they are currently exploring these approaches:

  • HTML+CSS+Canvas
  • CSS Paint API

This is due to their strong support across browsers. No mention of WASM. I can only hope they're secretly looking into it because till yesterday, I had no clue that they got Flutter already compiling for the web.

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Ben Halpern

Ah interesting!

Iโ€™m definitely checking out that article. Thanks for the tldr ๐Ÿ™‚