I wanted to get into Flutter but it seems like there are some bugs that are either unfixable or that they have actively decided not to fix. I didn't want to end up wasting my time building on such a foundation, but it's definitely nice for certain projects that fit within the supported functionality.
What bugs do you mean? Anything serious i should know about?
The main one that jumped out to me was a scroll issue on iOS when using multiple fingers. I just looked it up to share a link and it may be fixed? It's the mentality of "Eh, we might fix it one day" that is the bulk of why I didn't stick with Flutter. A bug this annoying lingering for as long as it did said volumes to me.
Possibly fixed: https://9to5google.com/2023/12/28/google-fixes-flutter-infamous-scrolling-bug/
It's a real shame. Great framework but based on a single purpose language by a company known to drop projects on a whim. I loved to play with it, but I can't imagine sinking a lot of dev hours into it, knowing it could just disappear.
Dart's single purpose was supposed to be a JS successor for browsers.
I can understand trepidation about committing to a sibling of Google Reader, but I'm also glad Dart is getting a second shake. It's very much a general-purpose language.
I personally enjoy writing Dart a lot more than Go. It really added to my experience learning and working with Flutter.
Totally get you but it’s open source isn’t it? I don’t think it’ll just die randomly. Especially considering Google uses it themselves
Just being open source doesn't guarantee a project's survival. If Google were to abandon it the most likely outcome would be a community fork that gets 100th of the development manpower it gets now, and most developers would abandon the platform leading to it's effective death.
But I also think it's unlikely Google will abandon it. It's actually quite good and quite popular now.
My first thought was: "I didn't know that flutter is developed by mozilla"
Haha touché, two peas in a pod.
the only reason i don't use flutter is because my brain is polluted with react
Wait 6 months to a year. See what breaks.
I've also enjoyed working with it. Switching to React Native for a different project later felt like a huge step back.
My only experience with it was with harmony-music built/installed from AUR on artix, and I couldn't keep using it, it was consuming too munch CPU, making the fans run nuts. Not sure if it was harmony-music itself, or flutter. Apparently not the same OP experience.
I would love to talk about Qt Framework and QML, here, but QML doesn't seem particularly great either.
Although I have only used QML, so I might only be knowing the pains of it and not the others.
Just pop open a QOpenGLWidget and say goodbye to QML and your sanity forever!
Guess I'll use that as my gateway to OpenGL
I personally felt the nesting looks bad and confusing, but overall it's okay.
Yup.
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