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Drinking the Flutter Coolaid - Simon Lightfoot
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Drinking the Flutter Coolaid - Simon Lightfoot
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- Recommended by 2 people: 2 in engineering communities.
- Presented by Simon Lightfoot
- May be out of date. The tools, versions or practices it shows have likely moved on.
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
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Mobile developmentProgramming languagesFlutter and React NativeAndroid and Jetpack ComposeiOS and SwiftUI
Simon Lightfoot discusses the benefits of Flutter and Dart, comparing them to React Native and native Android development with Kotlin.
The best android courses on the planet: codingwithmitch.com Coffee and Coding Podcast: robj.me/coffeeandcoding/ Follow Simon: twitter.com/devangelslondon Flutter Community Youtube: youtube.com/c/FlutterCommunityVideos Flutter Medium: medium.com/flutter-community Flutter Architectural Overview: flutter.dev/docs/resources/architectural-overview Flutter is more popular than React Native: star-history.t9t.io/#flutter/flutter&facebook/react-native Flutter for Android Developers (presentation): droidcon.com/media-detail?video=390723483 Simon doing a Flutter talk: youtube.com/watch?v=4CYTTW6PMoc&ab_channel=FlutterEurope Instagram: instagram.com/codingwithmitch Twitter: twitter.com/mitch_tabian . . #FlutterWhy it's here
2 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended for its insights into Flutter's compilation targets, garbage collection, and hot reload capabilities compared to Kotlin.
u/Schwuschin r/programming • Recommends
On “Dart 2.10”
Simon Lightfoot makes a good point, Kotlin isn't as versatile when it comes to compilation targets and doesn't ship the garbage collector/runtime to old Android devices. It locks developers to Intellij IDEs or it's derivatives. It doesn't have stateful binary patching in order to enable hot reload that I know of. Did Kotlin even compile to native 2016/2017 when Flutter was built?
In general the Dart SDK feels more mature in the dev and deployment area. Dart is lacking in syntax, but has existed longer and seems to be better suited for what Flutter is supposed to do.