kraken VS Flutter

There's also stuff like Kraken, whatever SerenityOS is doing for its web browser and what I hope takes over very soon - Servo.

Once there was Kosmonaut and Kraken, now there is WebF (Web on Flutter).

One can dream and it would be awesome if Konqueror could get much, much love - fundings, people interested on it and working for it, making it shine and gain back its old glory. We can dream about The Linux Foundation getting funds to keep goin with Servo and not letting it die so we could use it as another backend with Konqueror, same as how you can right now pick between Webkit or KHTML. Or maybe some other new project like Kraken. But none of us can predict the future so who knows what's gonna happen.

As a Flutter developer, "Write in JavaScript, Render in Flutter" is vague.

It's "Write Flutter apps in Javascript". Flutter is not a "renderer", Flutter is a framework + engine. "Kraken" literally builds widgets for you when you write Javascript code, Flutter is doing a lot more than "rendering".

"Kraken" is like React Native, but instead of talking to the host platform, it uses Flutter. Flutter is already cross platform, so the only benefit here is to write in Javascript. However, you would probably inherit some costs similar to React Native: communication between a Javascript Engine/ interpreter and a AOT compiled application. This time, you don't get to use the react-native-plugin NPM packages, because you'd need kraken-flutter-plugins.

The biggest concern I have is usability. How will I use popular Flutter packages, from Javascript? The "Kraken" community is very small. Even worse, the community seems purely based in China.

It's very difficult to understand the health of the codebase with all these github issues written in Mandarin Chinese: https://github.com/openkraken/kraken/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%...

Github: https://github.com/openkraken/kraken

[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... ?