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chgibbon All you should know about Flutter development

That is something I'm trying to change https://hydro-sdk.io/

chgibbon Launch HN: FlutterFlow (YC W21) – Build Apps Visually

I am slowly trying to make this happen https://hydro-sdk.io/

chgibbon Write in JavaScript, Render in Flutter

https://hydro-sdk.io/ enables this approach as well.

chgibbon Write in JavaScript, Render in Flutter

Have you looked at https://hydro-sdk.io/ ?

chgibbon Abstract Syntax Tree for Patching Code and Assessing Code Quality

What was your solution to writing out your parsed Lua AST?

chgibbon IconVG is a compact, binary format for simple vector graphics

SVG in Flutter still leaves a lot to be desired. We've ended up building a subset of SVG that can be composed using const code that fills some of the missing gaps in packages like flutter_svg.

chgibbon Compose for Web

Not Kotlin, but working to bring Flutter to other languages https://hydro-sdk.io/

chgibbon .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI

Over the air updates are currently a "rest of the owl" situation for users.

First party support for hosting and over the air updates is coming before the end of the year.

chgibbon .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI

Very early days still but support for C# is on the roadmap https://hydro-sdk.io/

chgibbon .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI

Very early days and not quite "Flutter in C#" but support for C# is on the roadmap https://hydro-sdk.io/

chgibbon Show HN: LadyLua, batteries-included static Lua 5.1 interpreter

This is really cool!

Why Lua 5.1 and not 5.2 or 5.3? What does the marshalling story between Lua and the builtin Go modules look like? What would it take to add more builtins or richer marshalling?

I love seeing other Lua implementations.

chgibbon What I learnt after burning $10M as an entrepreneur

Are you concerned about being locked into Dart as a developer?

chgibbon Improving large monorepo performance on GitHub

Sparse-checkouts are amazing. I wrote some small tools that use dependency information in Flutter packages to drive a sparse-checkout. We use it at $dayjob now.

chgibbon Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust

We're pretty bought into Flutter. No cross platform toolkit is perfect but Flutter is miles ahead of everything else. For a not very scientific analysis: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

chgibbon Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf]

Thanks for the link! I actually haven't seen that project before.

As far as I can tell, starflut appears to offer basic script running with pass through of primitive types from Dart -> guest languages.

Hydro-SDK strives to offer far deeper integration between Dart -> guest languages up to and including extending from Dart classes in guest languages, and passing instances seamlessly back and forth with little overhead.

chgibbon Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf]

Issues with/dislike of Dart is a pretty common refrain. This project is still very early days but the intent is to bring Flutter into Typescript https://github.com/chgibb/hydro-sdk

Eventually I hope to bring Flutter to C#, Haxe, and (maybe stretching it) eventually Kotlin, Java and Scala.

chgibbon Fennel – Lisp in Lua

We're using Lua as a base for bringing Flutter into other languages https://github.com/chgibb/hydro-sdk

chgibbon Understanding null safety in Dart

Using Typescript for Flutter is the intent behind this project https://github.com/chgibb/hydro-sdk

Though, note I am the author.