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Flutter isn't a good Electron alternative? Flutter 2.0 just came out with desktop support for osx, windows and linux and will be the main GUI framework for Linux.



There was a lot of criticism, especially of the Web version, in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26332944


> and will be the main GUI framework for Linux.

That's already GTK+ and Qt, and the big GTK+ and Qt projects aren't switching over to Flutter any time soon.



Not yet. Or rather, I would say you can use it for simple stuff, like Etcher then it is a reasonable choice. But you wouldn't want to use it for something like Slack yet. Some basic stuff like ctrl-Z in text fields does not work yet. Doing normal desktop things like menus and file dialogs will be a pain.

That said, I am writing a Git desktop client in Flutter and I like it. But I don't expect to finish it for many years so hopefully by then they'll have ironed everything out.




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