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Flutters Hot Reloading has spoiled me forever.

I am a C++/mobile dev and I couldn't get myself amped about React Native because you have to do all the layouts through style-sheets. I am not a web dev, so style-sheets are pretty foreign to me beyond the basics. With flutter I can do all the same stuff but with auto-complete and in a hierarchy I understand.

I do wish the controls were native, but the customization you get instead is pretty powerful.




Haven't tried Flutter yet, but I feel the same way ever since React/Vue hot reload. It's a game changer. I really really miss it whenever I'm working on a site or game that doesn't support it. Once you get used to it, it feels painfully slow developing without.


The first time I experimented something like that was in Smalltalk/V.

Followed later by the Oberon OS.

Eiffel also offered a similar experience with their MELT VM and compilation to native code via C code generation.




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