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by reactchain 2171 days ago
Flutter for web feels like going back to the .net "webforms" days, where you could supposedly build a web app the same way as a desktop one and the whole client-server thing was abstracted away. Except it sucked, I still have nightmares about viewstate. Seeing Flutter apps that render everything to canvas feels similar.

Developing once for iOS and Android seems obvious and doable, but extending that to the web is a different game.
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pjmlp 2171 days ago
Welcome to WebAssembly + WebGL future.
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reactchain 2169 days ago
I think the goal of running native speed compiled-ish code on the browser in a sandboxed way would be great if it worked. CSS and HTML for "apps" has always seemed like a hack to me. The problem is every single attempt to do this in the past has resulted in a bloated mess. Maybe this time will be different...
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nightowl_games 2171 days ago
I am a believer!
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pjmlp 2171 days ago
The irony is that with WebAssembly maturing, we will have the revenge of plugins, and stuff like Flash is already being brought back, but hey now it is a standard browser feature.
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jamil7 2171 days ago
> Developing once for iOS and Android seems obvious and doable

After shipping an app in it this year I've become a big fan of Kotlin Native, you can do enough code sharing to take the edge of doing two apps as a solo dev while having very little friction to access native views and APIs. The two apps feel like platform citizens on each OS but I have networking, persistence, utils and state management shared between them.

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