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by tylerscott 1666 days ago
I would definitely recommend the author look at Flutter again now. The comment there was back in July. The desktop experience has greatly improved. I have been building out a desktop-first set of components and it's been a real joy to work with.
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jmnicolas 1666 days ago
Dart / Flutter lacks essential libraries: you can't do ssh / sftp on desktop for example.

As a side question, Do you parse JSON in your apps? If yes what package do you use? I tried built_value, I suspect the people that developed this really hate me personally ;)

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tylerscott 1666 days ago
For sure there are alot of things missing like you mention.

Another I find personally frustrating is so many libraries assume you are using the Material stack.

RE: JSON--I have used json_serializable in the past: https://pub.dev/packages/json_serializable. For my current project, I am using a data format I created call Traindown (https://traindown.com) and it's all local so I haven't hit JSON or SSH/SFTP issues personally.

Sorry I don't have a silver bullet suggestion for ya! I'm sure they don't hate you personally. Maybe all of us as collective "users" but not YOU! haha

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jmnicolas 1665 days ago
Sadly json_serializable seems to use code generation like built_value. I'll check it anyway, it can't be worse than built_value!

Thanks for the suggestion.

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