Today for the first time in zap.store , a developer has published their own app 🤩
That is ngit by nostr:nprofile1qqs2qzx779ted7af5rt04vzw3l2hpzfgtk0a2pw6t2plaz4d2734vngpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7hycrvd (a CLI package)
We'll be reaching out to more CLI and Android devs to follow suit!
Great work! I know how much work goes into tools that appear simple to the those who use them. May I be the first of a great many.
NEAT
Slowly, then suddenly
Zapstore is a package manager for the CLI too?
If so, fantastic. I'll write integration for it.
Yes!
Very good work. Was looking at the code, DART is very similar to Java and C++. I also see you are adding support to modern CPUs (Arm, etc) and OS. This will come handy to run from small computers.
Yes, absolutely. Binaries are relatively small too (around 8MB vs 60+ MB I was getting with JS runtimes)
Yeah, react native is hard to get under 60MB, but it's just so much faster to work with...
I am very productive with Dart, and find Typescript annoying. So I guess it depends.
And you are writing in Flutter? That's sort of half way between classic Kotlin and RN
Yes, it's something I have previous experience with. I love Dart, and it's getting awesomer now with metaprogramming. The part I dislike the most is that it's a Google project.
Kotlin is great too.
Makes sense. I think the best sell for me for RN is that it just uses CSS and string expressions, so if you know CSS (and basic flexbox) some JS/TS, you get productive right away.
I tried digging into Kotlin, but it would be notable time investment for me...
Note that ngit -V will correctly show 1.4.3 !
There was an issue in my computer, that's why you see 0.0.1 in the screenshot
WE ARE WINNING
ACHIVEMENT UNLOCKED.
This is a fantastic milestone, heading towards a future where we control not our attention and our social data, but the application stores behind them too.
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👏👏👏
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Pretty dope.
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Brutal 🔥
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and the clown show continues. 🤦🏻♂️
What does this mean?
I find watching developers who think they know better than Apple, to be humorous, like a clown show.
Nobody could possibly know better than your corporate nanny overlords
It’s their business and they have been doing it a lot longer. So, yeah, I’ll trust them before some random developer. 🤣
Apple's business is gatekeeping and walled gardens. Yes, they develop some excellent technology in order to achieve those goals, no disagreement there.
But if you want a different end state than closed gates and corporate bubbles, you might want to encourage "random developers".
You can’t gatekeep something that is freely available on another operating system. The problem is, people want to have their cake and eat it too.
They want the benefits of iOS AND Android. And while there may be nothing inherently wrong with that idea, it’s not a very practical request.
There are features that make Android better in some respects and there are features that make iOS better in some respects.
If you want security and optimization, choose iOS.
If you want freedom of choice above all else, choose Android.
I find it absolutely disgusting that the EU would use legislature to tamp down another company’s success simply because none of their tech companies can match it.
That sounds like a great choice
