What are your thoughts on the Dart programming language and the Flutter cross-platform mobile SDK?
Dart/Flutter
Aaron Thomas
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Jackson Hill
It will allow for much more solid cross platform apps unlike react native. Just has no library ecosystem now though.
Landon Sullivan
Also I'd like it much more if it were able to use something similar to JSX. Flutter's build method with its nesting of widgets is difficult to read and you're also forced to inline styles.
Grayson Harris
Do you still have to deal with the crazy Activity shit on Android with Flutter?
Jayden Cooper
>Also I'd like it much more if it were able to use something similar to JSX
github.com
This has got to be one of the longest comment threads on GitHub.
Jose Hall
As far as I understand you're pretty much only using Dart unless you want to create an app icon or launch screen, or want to create a bridging library that uses native features (e.g. speech recognition). You'd have to play around with the Flutter native API if you want to integrate it in to a brownfield app though, and that would include creating an activity.
Easton Jenkins
The best approach to cross platform webdev is to release on F-Droid and reply to requests for an iOS port with smug Stallmans.
Nicholas Hill
So instead of removing the "conflicting comments" they decided to lock the conversation.
Well there goes any dreams for a readable UI layout syntax.
Hunter Morris
>cross platform webdev
Wake up before you post.
>smug Stallmans
If you're running GApps, you are in no position to be smug about your free flashlight app. iOS is better for your privacy than Google-hooked Android.
Camden Lewis
It's pretty cute, but the readability of widget layouts is a fucking mess
Wyatt Hernandez
Glad to see people standing up to embedding a stupid dsl that needs to be preprocessed.
JSX people are stupid as shit
Cameron Rivera
>iOS is better for your privacy than Google-hooked Android.
Unfortunately this is true. On Apple you're a customer whereas on Android you're the product.
Evan Wood
What is JSX and what pros/cons are there?
Dylan Thompson
>It's pretty cute
What's cute about? It's pretty much modern Java.
Gavin Peterson
Meme dsl invented to sate the needs of Facebook to transpile js at any chance they get even though template strings and template literal syntax was added to it at about the same time and could have been both runtime evaluated or prebaked with transpiling.
The main point of the dsl is to intermix your ui component declarations with your JavaScript code. Basically html + JavaScript.
Zachary Rogers
>This is what Itodlers actually believe.
Michael Bailey
>t. Google-sucker
I'm using LineageOS with microG and only apps from F-Droid.
Jaxson Martin
Nah, fuck flutter and dart especially. Native development with Kotlin is the way to go.
Thomas Long
Fuckin hell I gave up reading all that
Dylan Foster
>Saying Apple isn't any better than Google means you like Googles dick in you ass.
Charles Jackson
It does, because it ignores the obvious differences between the two.
Christopher Smith
>people think that this is perfectly readable and fine
Christian Russell
There's no fucking way Flutter will be taken seriously with this shit
Nathan Morgan
no less readable than some inline xml-like abortion that basically does the same thing.
Caleb Brown
The ideal solution is just a separate XML like Java Android apps already do, and just hook into components in your class from the file to fuck with state or something
Dominic Johnson
I have mixed feelings on this in general. I see the appeal of the mixing of code and ui shit, but there is tooling simplicity and organization benefits to keeping shit separate and describing style/layout in other files.
I'd hope flutter was generic enough to support a wide variety of solutions, but DSLs are fucking cancer. I wouldn't hate JSX so much if it was at least a template literal, like Jsx`${MyGayWidget({ gay: attrs })}${ // my gay js}` because then it would be "native" js through and through.
Brayden Cooper
This. I don’t know why we’ve abandoned twenty years of SoC to start putting markup in the control code again.
Robert Myers
because that's what react kids are doing. it's the future, today(tm).
Liam James
It is not control code, but view code. Your JSX code should only express what you'd express with directives in, e.g., AngularJS.
Josiah Morales
Pretty nice. Dart is like a language with (nearly) all of the good parts of javascript but without the gigantic amount of shit that that language has.
But like everyone and their mother's have been saying, it needs something like JSX.
Dylan Stewart
>What are your thoughts on the Dart programming language
Solid, but
- using Haxe from the beginning would have been better
- designing static type checking from the beginning would have been better
> and the Flutter cross-platform mobile SDK?
Idc.