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by lewisjoe 2055 days ago
How is this better than Flutter? If the answer is Kotlin > Dart, then what if Google comes up with a Flutter version that supports multiple languages (Dark/Swift/Kotlin)?

If I'm to pick Flutter vs Jetbrains/Jetpack Compose - I'd pick Flutter because it supports desktop, mobile & web. And Flutter's philosophy of rendering directly using Skia on all platforms seems to be a sound strategy.
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TeeWEE 2055 days ago
This seems very similar to flutter indeed.

I think flutter is more mature and has way better widgets.

However I like the general move towards "One UI Toolkit for all platforms" approach..

Off course we already have this but then never really worked on mobile: - QT - Java Swing - SWT - Flash

And I think, Web makes it easy to run a browser anywhere, but technically needing a whole browser engine to show a UI is just overcomplicated designs... I know web developers like it because they often dont know how UI toolkits are build outside of web... I think Flutter hits the nail on the head with the best of both worlds: Browser makers created flutter optimized for UI native applications, not for WEB in general.

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usrusr 2055 days ago
> How is this better than Flutter?

The lower bound of an answer is this: when the core of your work is kotlin android dev and you are only occasionally required to dabble in desktop (perhaps for some internal tooling related to the backend of your app) skill transferability will be worth a lot. Everybody can throw together hello world and some buttons in any toolkit, but reaching any meaningful level of productivity requires a lot of experience in the toolkit.

Something designed from the beginning for multiplatform will very likely end up not productive overall of you have a 50:50 distribution, but if you have a clear first class platform for product / second class platform for the occasional supporting tool situation, then something designed specifically for the first class platform that also has some capability for the second class platform can easily be superior.

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burntcookie90 2055 days ago
Compose also draws to skia https://github.com/JetBrains/skiko
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