Same, I had zero interest in full native (takes too long) or things like React native (I hate javascript) and Dart/Flutter seems a decent path forward.
Thanks! I really do enjoy writing Dart. Hopefully one day it gets cross compile support. Go is nice in that regard but the syntax compared to Dart is not as expressive to me.
As a chemical engineer in the late 90's I used fltk to write a real-time photoresist film web inspection system. The first version in VB was too slow as the system used a laser to scan for defects in film going by at several hundred feet per minute. I was a novice C++ programmer and fltk was the only toolkit I could get my head around and came with a great UI builder (fluid). I even was able to write my own widgets. And all of this was running on a Celeron 300MHz system.
Heck yeah. Still pays the bills for me after 20 years and with Micronaut, Quarkus and even Spring boot the story around startup time and memory consumption is great. Tons of devs to hire, insanely good tooling/monitoring/debugging tools - why not use it?
Very useful project - I'm primarily a Java dev and it makes things much easier for me to have some level of compile time type support when working with lua
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