Working with #flutter and #dart, and an annoyance is the linter complaining that some things should be marked const.
Yes, linter, you're absolutely correct about that. But if you can figure that out, why the hell doesn't the compiler do it automagically as an optimisation step?
If there is a good reason why the compiler can't do that, I'd love to hear it.
When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock's orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded - but Dimorphos' orbit has continued to shrink and it isn't clear why
The NASA DART spacecraft that rammed into asteroid Didymos's moonlet Dimorphos on Sep 26, 2022, not only created a long tail of fine particles, it also ejected dozens of large boulders from its surface.
The Hubble space telescope imaged 37 such boulders in Dec 2022, ranging in size from 1 m to 6.7 m, which are drifting away from Dimorphos at ~1 km per hour. The total mass in these boulders is about 0.1% that of Dimorphos.
I’ve had the itch to create an app that addresses a very specific hobby need I have.
While it definitely could be a PWA app — I’ve got zero interest in paying for hosting, domains, etc.
I own only an iPhone and iPad, but I’ve decided to use #Flutter. My initial impression is that it and #Dart borrow heavily from other popular programming languages and app platforms. I don’t mind that at all. It feels familiar and fresh. #Wpf, #ReactJs, #Swift, #SwiftUI, #TypeScript
Stelle mir bei #Dart immer vor, dass es aus einer Jagdmethode eines Steinzeitstammes entstanden ist.
Männer stehen mit kleinen #Pfeilen da, während ein Bison oder ein Mammut auf sie zustürmt, um ihnen im letzten Moment einen Pfeil ins Auge zu werfen.
Der Stamm war matriarchalisch organisiert und die Frauen wählten die Jäger aus. Der Stamm war auch relativ schnell ausgestorben.
Is there a language that handles dependencies well?
Python's virtual environments are a bit awkward but everything mostly works, I haven't played with Java build tools much, Javascript is a trainwreck. I've been happy with Dart, but haven't gotten into the weeds much. Same with rust, cargo seems nice, but I haven't played with it enough to know the pitfalls yet.
One year ago today the #DARTMission crashed into asteroid Dimorphos. This image was taken by the accompanying #LICIACube spacecraft and shows ejecta streaming out after the impact.
When Dart overtook Kotlin as my favorite language I still missed certain features of Kotlin. One was the incredibly powerful switch statement, called "when", that Kotlin had and being able to use that for assignment. Now that Dart 3 is out I now have the equivalent of that again :). It may be missing a couple of edge case features like "in" comparisons but I have to experiment more to determine that. Hats off Dart and Flutter Team. (Screenshot from the "What's New in Dart and Flutter" presentation from #GoogleIO#GoogleIO2023#flutter#dart#kotlin
I'll be honest, after years of using #Kotlin working with #Dart and #Flutter in the year 2023 feels reminiscent of how it was using Java 7 for Android development more than a decade ago.
Learning #flutter and #dart today. Love how non-confrontational it us when it says something like. "You can develop apps for #Android or #iOS, but you need an #apple machine for iOS".
Is that the only reason there is no #GPL code in the iOS #appstore? Too many proprietary apple dependencies? Is it possible to develop iOS apps on #BSD ?
I'm a slightly autistic introvert, interested in a lot of things like surfing, design, technologies and computer science. Russian (native), English (foreign). 35+ yrs old.
It occurred to my today that I have been coding for 40 years, starting with ZX Spectrum BASIC and currently enjoying #dart and #flutter. I still love #coding, it still excites me and I am always learning. I can't image a time when I don't code.
Thinking about submitting a talk or two to Fluttercon USA. Company would like me to talk about mobile observability, but I kinda also want to talk about Dart embedding. Curious if Fluttercon is a good fit for that....
everyone’s talking about the python layoffs but the #flutter and #dart layoffs seem to have flown under the radar. from a mobile dev perspective they are more concerning regarding google’s commitment to its supposedly first class cross platform development ecosystem
Asteroid hit by NASA spacecraft is behaving unexpectedly (archive.ph)
When NASA crashed its DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos, the goal was to shorten the space rock's orbit around its parent asteroid. The mission succeeded - but Dimorphos' orbit has continued to shrink and it isn't clear why