I've written about it before too :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34622514
The things you list that couldn't be implemented in such an environment are a mix of two things, first, things that browsers are specifically designed to _prevent_ a web page from doing, e.g. to avoid leaking privacy,…
The original blog post was migrated back to my blog when Google+ shut down: https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1344621190&count=1
*hugs*
That link is broken, FWIW, the correct link is https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC...
> Flutter has a large DevRel push, how many of these projects / users are students who just spin it up once and hit star on GH when asked and never touch it again? I've no idea how to measure that. > Your team was asked…
Hello, Flutter TL here. > your team needs to be more transparent. Unfortunately most of the lack of transparency is not under the Flutter team's control, but I'll see what I can do. > How is Flutter funded? A number of…
It was (and still is) heavily used by Google Ads internally. Dart literally powers the vast majority of Google's income, and has for years.
There's a lot more than one person working on Dart!
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Issue%20Hygiene describes our policies here.
But why would an app that writes to a WebGL canvas be any harder to maintain than an app that uses HTML controls? If anything, it'd be likely to be easier to maintain -- we (the web standards community) are much more…
> What do you think of the loss of opportunities for learning and customization that moving to an opaque system running "in" the web (flutter) implies? Not sure what you really mean. If you mean the loss of "View…
HackerNews uses tables for layout, inline styles, and still forces browsers into quirks mode. Yeah, it can handle slightly bumping up the font size. I can also bump up my font size on Windows, macOS, and Android, and…
I would have had much less of a problem with Flash if it had been a runtime built with web technologies like that.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "all of that". What I described _is_ the web.
I can't speak for Jetpack, but as far as Flutter goes: Flutter is open source, we do all our work in the open. File a bug; we look at all our incoming bugs and there are members of the Flutter team (volunteers as well…
Many of the lessons we learn with GPay directly fed into improvements in the framework, improvements in our tooling to make this kind of debugging much easier, and better documentation to try to scale the knowledge to…
We don't pull any resources from Google (or any of the other companies who contribute to Flutter, like Microsoft, Cannonical, Nevercode, etc) at runtime. During development time we pull binaries from Google servers (for…
Flutter's Wayland support is used by Google for a consumer product with millions of users. (source: I work for Google.)
It's a pretty big app. I'd be curious to see how big the equivalent app built using Web technologies directly would be. That said, yes, if you want small download sizes on the Web then Flutter isn't the technology for…
We compile to JS for execution on the browser. We don't use the NPAPI or Pepper plugin APIs. We intend to work on any standards-compliant browser. (I used to be the editor for the HTML standard, so I have some skin in…
Neither. More like "figuring out your build system and how to integrate with the Flutter embedder API and how to hook all that up to the Dart compiler" and that kind of thing.
If you're aware of areas where our accessibility support isn't up to par, please file a bug: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new?template=BUG.m...
I'm not sure what it would mean for me to guarantee anything. So far, we've generally been able to release updates ahead of the OS. For example, IIRC we implemented support for the iPhone "notch" before the notched…
If it is noticeable, please do file a bug with the details of the device on this you're seeing the problem. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new?template=perfo...
I've written about it before too :-) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34622514
The things you list that couldn't be implemented in such an environment are a mix of two things, first, things that browsers are specifically designed to _prevent_ a web page from doing, e.g. to avoid leaking privacy,…
The original blog post was migrated back to my blog when Google+ shut down: https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1344621190&count=1
*hugs*
That link is broken, FWIW, the correct link is https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC...
> Flutter has a large DevRel push, how many of these projects / users are students who just spin it up once and hit star on GH when asked and never touch it again? I've no idea how to measure that. > Your team was asked…
Hello, Flutter TL here. > your team needs to be more transparent. Unfortunately most of the lack of transparency is not under the Flutter team's control, but I'll see what I can do. > How is Flutter funded? A number of…
It was (and still is) heavily used by Google Ads internally. Dart literally powers the vast majority of Google's income, and has for years.
There's a lot more than one person working on Dart!
https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Issue%20Hygiene describes our policies here.
But why would an app that writes to a WebGL canvas be any harder to maintain than an app that uses HTML controls? If anything, it'd be likely to be easier to maintain -- we (the web standards community) are much more…
> What do you think of the loss of opportunities for learning and customization that moving to an opaque system running "in" the web (flutter) implies? Not sure what you really mean. If you mean the loss of "View…
HackerNews uses tables for layout, inline styles, and still forces browsers into quirks mode. Yeah, it can handle slightly bumping up the font size. I can also bump up my font size on Windows, macOS, and Android, and…
I would have had much less of a problem with Flash if it had been a runtime built with web technologies like that.
I'm not really sure what you mean by "all of that". What I described _is_ the web.
I can't speak for Jetpack, but as far as Flutter goes: Flutter is open source, we do all our work in the open. File a bug; we look at all our incoming bugs and there are members of the Flutter team (volunteers as well…
Many of the lessons we learn with GPay directly fed into improvements in the framework, improvements in our tooling to make this kind of debugging much easier, and better documentation to try to scale the knowledge to…
We don't pull any resources from Google (or any of the other companies who contribute to Flutter, like Microsoft, Cannonical, Nevercode, etc) at runtime. During development time we pull binaries from Google servers (for…
Flutter's Wayland support is used by Google for a consumer product with millions of users. (source: I work for Google.)
It's a pretty big app. I'd be curious to see how big the equivalent app built using Web technologies directly would be. That said, yes, if you want small download sizes on the Web then Flutter isn't the technology for…
We compile to JS for execution on the browser. We don't use the NPAPI or Pepper plugin APIs. We intend to work on any standards-compliant browser. (I used to be the editor for the HTML standard, so I have some skin in…
Neither. More like "figuring out your build system and how to integrate with the Flutter embedder API and how to hook all that up to the Dart compiler" and that kind of thing.
If you're aware of areas where our accessibility support isn't up to par, please file a bug: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new?template=BUG.m...
I'm not sure what it would mean for me to guarantee anything. So far, we've generally been able to release updates ahead of the OS. For example, IIRC we implemented support for the iPhone "notch" before the notched…
If it is noticeable, please do file a bug with the details of the device on this you're seeing the problem. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/new?template=perfo...