Nostr Web Client

I gradually feel that developing flutter is like developing 3 platforms. The amount of work is increasing instead of decreasing. Flutter is only good for CRUD kind of applications, horrible for anything about multimedia and specific device capabilities

Ben Campbell 2y ago

I work in Dart front end applications and have been keeping low key tabs on flutter.

If it’s like the rest of dart history. They hype will taper and it’ll jump to the next cool thing.

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Water Blower 2y ago

Do you recommend Flutter for cross platform mobile? Overall I like the UI layer of Flutter. But the Dart language is too clumsy and verbose. The plugin system also requires too many native code.

Ben Campbell 2y ago

I don’t know enough to say one way or another. The work I have seen has relied on graphql/bff architectures to make the flutter builds pretty much just a view layer.

Water Blower 2y ago

Then it makes sense. The material UI is easy to learn, has well defined design semantics and beautiful

Water Blower 2y ago

Also, what is the motivation for a Dart web front end?

Ben Campbell 2y ago

When rewriting some legacy applications about 10 years ago a group looked for a easy to adopt type safe language for the web. From what I recall Typescript wasn’t strong enough yet and Darts google relationship was reassuring.

I am not impressed with where we are, but hindsight’s 20/20.

Water Blower 2y ago

In my experience TS offers better compile time check if all code are in TS. But the JS runtime can still cause problems. Lack of tagged union and not type safe JSON make me not like Dart.