chimera_flutter_code_push VS dart_eval

Has anyone used this (repo) in production? Are there any drawbacks and is there significant performance overhead?

Thanks for the comments everyone. It gave me great understanding of the matter. After reading the github issue page, I came across Chimera https://github.com/Waytoon/chimera_flutter_code_push Do you guys think this is a good solution to circumvent the code-push issue?

...which is what xml_layout and dart_eval are there for. However, at that point I wouldn't call it "writing Flutter applications in Rust" any more (which of course is just a subjective interpretation).

I also want to note that dart_eval now has over 100 tests running in CI! If you're interested in contributing to the project, writing even more tests might be one of the easier places to start - head on over to the GitHub repo and don't be shy to ask any questions.

Check out dart_eval

I learned about this because I wrote dart_eval lol. I'm sure there is a less time-consuming way, maybe some intro to programming tutorials would teach it. But tbh I don't think it's critical to know to be a good programmer.

I've been working for a few years now on dart_eval, the pure-Dart interpreter for Dart with a focus on interop (that's also now super fast :D). While dart_eval has technically been usable in Flutter apps for a while, actually doing so was pretty painful and definitely didn't meet the ultimate goal of enabling simple, automatic code push.

Maintaining this support was of course a high priority and it's also received a full rewrite, making it both easier to use than ever and also with a significantly reduced performance cost. Of course interop performance will still be better using wrappers if you don't need to extend the class, and code push support continues to evolve with the addition of runtime overrides (see previous link).

If you want to understand how it works, I think a good place to start learning would be to learn about how programming languages work in general - like what is a 'declaration' vs 'expression' vs 'statement' and then maybe see if you can understand the contributing document?