dart_eval VS Flutter

...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.

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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?

[3]: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/tree/master/packages/flut...

Thanks - that link does not appear to be open access, anyways I don't think I've seen it. I'm familiar with Flutter at a high-level (Kevin Moore gave a great talk on it at Wasm I/O), and I think other than requiring users to work in Dart, it is probably one of the most powerful ways to do cross-platform UI today.

Worth noting that their original GPU backend was Skia, and now they are retooling around Flutter GPU (Impeller)[0], which is kind of designed similarly as an abstract rendering interface over platform-specific GPU APIs.

[0]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter-GPU

If you are considering Electron/React then I would suggest adding Flutter to your list of technologies to consider. It uses Dart (a language similar to C#) and has a lot going for it… relatively quick to get up to speed with, fantastic developer experience (e.g., hot reload, great IDE support, good development tools) and very strong cross-platform support: it generates native iOS, Android, MacOS, Windows and Linux executables. Check it out: https://flutter.dev/

You can find the React Native documentation here and Flutter Documentation here.

[1]https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/55092#issuecomment...

> There is actually a great issue thread on the Flutter GitHub that explains exactly why other solutions do not work correctly when compared to hooks [0]

Interesting. I assume you are referring to this comment in particular -> https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/51752#issuecomment... ?