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I keep hearing this, but none of the cross platform apps I run use Flutter. It's all Electron and Qt.

I don't think I've ever seen Flutter in the wild.

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Or have you, and you just couldn't tell?

(I personally don't know if it's this good, but it's plausible)

Not OP - but almost all of the Flutter work I've ran into is mobile-centric.

If you're looking for cross-platform on the desktop it really hasn't been a popular option vs. Electron/Qt.

Given that "Today, we are excited to announce that Flutter is now stable for macOS and Linux, in addition to Windows!" thats not surprising

Of course, and to be clear I'm excited there are more cross-platform options even though I've had a reluctant history with Dart.

I read "I don't think I've ever seen Flutter in the wild" to include mobile, but maybe I misinterpreted

They just launched cross-platform desktop support today. Who would be using it for desktop apps like Electron?

It has been out for a serious while though, just in a very high quality beta. I've personally been using it just fine, though for nothing too complicated

https://flutter.dev/showcase

> ever seen Flutter in the wild.

So what is this made in then? [0] Hint it is not Electron.

[0] https://rows.com/download

Xamarin?

The referenced "Rows" application seems to be the showcase app "Rows" listed at

https://flutter.dev/showcase

Exactly.

I have a few apps out there and you can’t tell them apart from native. They are insanely snappy. Flutter is the bomb.

How’s the startup time?

Very limited anecdotal evidence: about the same as native apps on my android phone. (measured by counting out loud and trying some random apps)

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