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Cyberdog on July 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Six programming languages I’d like to see

Can you confirm that Dart desktop apps are actually desktop apps and not Electron apps or similar?

brabel on July 13, 2022 [–]

Of course... it's a very different tech. Flutter's graphics are based on Skia[1], same as used in Android and Chrome. Dart compiles to actual executable binaries, so it's not at all like Electron.

[1] https://skia.org/

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