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by SoKamil 147 days ago
Interesting, I didn’t know that it was immediate mode. According to the article [1] though, it now uses rendering engine with Retained Mode due to performance issues.

[1] https://medium.com/@0s.and.1s/flutter-part-iv-skia-vs-impell...
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winrid 147 days ago
ah neat, so they rewrote the rendering engine in C++ and exposed it via Dart APIs, as opposed to everything being in Dart.
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matt_kn 147 days ago
It has been like that since the very beginning (sky engine).
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