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[solarkraft]

I love Flutter. It's super dumb that they are not pushing hard to every platform (you could render to the web and basically get the desktop for free!). I would love to use it for a desktop app, or maybe on the web.

[fit2rule → solarkraft]

I love Flutter, too.

There are other ways to get the same juice, though.

I love MOAI, for the same reasons as I love Flutter. Except MOAI has a better license .. even if the responsibilities for using it as a non-Game GUI are pretty high. You can do it, but you've gotta have Lua-foo.

In my case, I'm going to glom Ultralig.ht onto MOAI some day soon, and see if it makes the Flutter desktop problem irrelevant...

[skybrian → solarkraft]

Someone else could do it. After all, Electron wasn't started by Google.

[adamjs → skybrian]

Not to dismiss work done by the Electron team but Electron essentially wraps Chromium via CEF, so, tangentially it was made possible by Google.

[bluejekyll → adamjs]

And Chromium came from -> WebKit (Apple) which came from -> Konqueror/KHTML (KDE)

[adamjs → bluejekyll]

Haha, I totally wrote that up but deleted it at the risk of sounding too fastidious.

[DC-3 → adamjs]

You probably mean pedantic. 'Fastidious' concerns attention to detail, not level of detail.

[FigmentEngine → DC-3]

no, pedantant is what you are doing: correcting above comms

[adamjs → FigmentEngine]

We've reached peak Hacker News.

[buchanae → adamjs]

I wonder if there's a limit to thread depth.

[clamshell → adamjs]

homie electron doesn't use CEF in any way