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A few things released recently that I find interesting

rhymes on December 05, 2018

As you probably know, recently Amazon held their AWS re:Invent 2018 conference, Microsoft held their Connect(); 2018 event and Google held Flutter ...
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Jermaine •

Also worth mentioning that Flutter code can now compile for various environments. This includes the web under what they call the Hummingbird project.

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Vince Ramces Oliveros •

There's Desktop, IoT, And many more surprises to come.

A lot of desktop embedding such as google's own desktop-embedding and go-flutter-desktop-embedding(pretty much the same). I was also shocked at the presentation powered by Flutter engine itself, I thought it was some Google Slides or something.

I'm glad I am now in the Dart side. Never ever be a dead horse project now fellas!

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Jermaine •

I was also shocked at the presentation powered by Flutter engine itself, I thought it was some Google Slides or something.

Yup, the presentation was awesome. Glad I was there to witness with my own eyes πŸ‘€

Dart is returning strong. Success stories are usually preceded by a boat-load of failures.

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Ben Halpern •

This is exciting!

What’s the story for Dart running natively ever? Would this be a WebAssembly thing at this point?

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Jermaine •

So from the article I linked to, they are currently exploring these approaches:

  • HTML+CSS+Canvas
  • CSS Paint API

This is due to their strong support across browsers. No mention of WASM. I can only hope they're secretly looking into it because till yesterday, I had no clue that they got Flutter already compiling for the web.

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Ben Halpern •

Ah interesting!

I’m definitely checking out that article. Thanks for the tldr πŸ™‚

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Helen Anderson •

Such a great summary :D

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rhymes •

Thanks! There's much more, I had to select my favorites :D Maybe you're interested in the new managed time series database AWS launched: aws.amazon.com/timestream/ (quite expensive though)

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Helen Anderson •

I spotted that in the long, long list of releases that came out of re:Invent. The future is definitely serverless and streaming in the AWS world. Interesting times ahead :)