Saw a recent discussion on Flutter and golang, which seems to me to be going the wrong way, because I didn't see the magic word "FIDL <https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/fidl>" being mentioned. So I'd like to share my finding about that,
First of all, about the Flutter: On February 27, 2018, in Mobile World Congress 2018, Google announced the first beta <https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/02/announcing-flutter-beta-1.html> release of Flutter <https://flutter.io/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=beta_announcement>. - Flutter is Google's new mobile UI framework that helps developers craft high-quality native interfaces for both iOS and Android. - Flutter targets the sweet spot of mobile development: performance and platform integrations of native mobile, with high-velocity development and multi-platform reach of portable UI toolkits. There are loads of articles on Flutter <https://flutter.io/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=beta_announcement> already, but let me just pick only two: What’s Revolutionary about Flutter https://hackernoon.com/whats-revolutionary-about-flutter-946915b09514 Quote: traditional model layout could be simplified significantly: - Instead of having a large set of layout rules that could be applied to any widget, each widget would specify its own simple layout model. - Because each widget has a much smaller set of layout rules to consider, layout can be optimized heavily. - To simplify layout even further, we turned almost everything into a widget. Second, Why we chose Flutter and how it’s changed our company for the better https://medium.com/@matthew.smith_66715/why-we-chose-flutter-and-how-its-changed-our-company-for-the-better-271ddd25da60 Quote: Our productivity on new feature development has roughly tripled. Here’s why: - Not only do we have the obvious gains from having only one code base between iOS and Android, we are able to share ~70% (at the moment of this writing it’s 67%) of our web client code with the mobile clients. But it doesn’t end there. - When we test a feature in any of the platforms, unless it’s a platform specific UI change, we are effectively testing across all three platforms at once. We did not expect this gain, but it’s real and it’s significant. - We also found that because we were able to merge what was a fragmented team into one team with a common skill set, we spend less time being blocked by each other and can more easily work together. And honestly, we are happier. While it’s fun to build a new feature, it becomes a chore to then have to recreate it two more times. Then have to write the platform specific unit tests. Then QA the same thing again. OK, enough about Flutter <https://flutter.io/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=beta_announcement>. We all know that recently Google lost its legal battle on using Java, so my personal view is that Android would be on the chopping board soon. One hint is that Google has silently changed its *Android* play store to *Google* Play Store <https://play.google.com/store?hl=en> recently, which means a lot to me. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that Flutter <https://flutter.io/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=beta_announcement> is only a small part of Google's strategic planning to ditch Java, and also the two OSs for the mobile phone and pad, the Android & ChromeOS, because Flutter <https://flutter.io/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=beta_announcement> is the center piece of Google's next generation OS, Fuchsia, which will be a cross-device OS for Phone, tablet, desktop, laptop, wearables, and more. Taken from https://9to5google.com/2018/01/23/what-is-google-fuchsia-os/ Most of the Fuchsia's UI is written in Dart <https://www.dartlang.org/> (a language that is designed to feel familiar to JavaScript and Java developers), through the Flutter framework <http://flutter.io/>. Support for Go <https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/third_party-go>!. Systems developers will find comfort in the availability of Rust <https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/docs/blob/7bfa3572a0fd27eb278419538a07faa5df59cec7/rust.md>. Google is also targeting Apple’s developer base by introducing Swift support <https://9to5google.com/2017/11/20/google-fuchsia-os-apple-swift-support/>. Once again, the Flutter framework <http://flutter.io/> will support Go <https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/third_party-go>! It has native interoperability support for most of these languages, through the FIDL protocol <https://github.com/fuchsia-mirror/fidl>, your Dart UI code can directly interface with your Go backend or any other combination. Again, the above are all of my finding, and my 2c view on them. All in all, I strongly believe that Flutter Will Take Off in 2018 <https://codeburst.io/why-flutter-will-take-off-in-2018-bbd75f8741b0>, and am happy that Go will be part of it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
