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rhymes

I don't like that I have to wait to compile and run when I write native in Swift

That's one of the "selling" points for Go, the fast compilation times, in my experience it invalidates this:

compiling

I'm sure Swift compilation phase is also "slowed" from the enourmous amount of stuff you have to compile for a mobile app to function :D

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Ben Halpern

I'm sure Swift compilation phase is also "slowed" from the enourmous amount of stuff you have to compile for a mobile app to function :D

Yes. The complacency with regards to the scenario described in the XKCD contributes to a developer experience which could have been different whether it had to do with compile time or otherwise.

Flutter and React Native offer a much better dev feedback loop. It's a shame this wasn't made possible in the most native case.

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rhymes

Flutter and React Native offer a much better dev feedback loop. It's a shame this wasn't made possible in the most native case.

I've gone through Flutter's tutorial just out of curiosity and it's amazing to see controls, colors, text and everything else changing in such a short time on the device plugged to the computer (the emulator is noticeably slower but that's true for all platforms I guess). It reminded me of hot module replacement with JS/webpack apps.

I was less happy about the amount of stuff I had to install to make everything work :D

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Ben Halpern

I had the same journey. My unhappiness hit when I realized the key native functionality I needed was nowhere to be found. I’ve been through this pain and it made me reconsider Flutter at this time.

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it made me reconsider Flutter at this time

The released a new preview version just yesterday: Flutter Release Preview 2: Pixel-Perfect on iOS

 
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Vince Ramces Oliveros

Glad to see someone got hooked to Flutter. Try it in profile/release mode(emulators doesnt support release/profile mode), you be stunned in its performance and productivity. Interpreted languages are good for beginners because they get overwhelmed with data types. Dart is statically and optionally typed language(dynamic type supports but I wouldnt recommend using it). Good for beginners if they want to use var only, it may infer its type in runtime. new and const are optional to optimize productivity, people still get confused new and const to a widget.

I've been using flutter for 6 months and now my productivity gets higher as I implement changes with their guidelines. But flutter is moving so fast, it is expected to release their v1.0 on November-December. Now I can easily switch language and easier to understand(Next is Go).