[cageface]

I think flutter is emerging as a compelling alternative for cross platform desktop development. I’m building a desktop app in it now and so far the experience has been quite positive.

[jwells89]

Flutter is also mobile-skewed unfortunately, putting it in the same camp as WinUI if you need more classical desktop widgets. Third party widgets can fill this hole in some cases, but for me that defeats much of the point of using a pre-existing UI toolkit…

[ShadowBanThis01]

Except it uses a language no one knows, unfortunately. I considered Flutter, but fat chance finding contractors who know Dart.

We ended up building a cross-platform desktop app in Qt and QML, and it works great.

[Apocryphon]

Dart takes like a month, if at that, to learn. Its mundanity makes it interchangeable.

[ShadowBanThis01]

I believe you. But try selling that to management. And when the language isn't used for any of the other software maintained by the company and nobody is going to be given time to learn it to keep the knowledge in-house... forget it.

[cageface]

I think your overall velocity with Flutter is going to be much higher than QT. The dev experience is so much nicer.

You are going to have to be willing to stick your neck out a bit though, that’s true.

[ShadowBanThis01]

I wish they'd used Kotlin. The endless proliferation of languages from Google devalues each one.