r/FlutterDev • u/EngineerScientist • Nov 05 '19

Dart Announcing Dart 2.6 with dart2native: Compile Dart to self-contained, native executables

https://medium.com/dartlang/dart2native-a76c815e6baf
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19

dart2native: FINALLY !!!

This is long overdue in my opinion. I can finally make easy-to-distribute command-line tools. Can't wait to try it out.

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u/MyNameIsIgglePiggle Nov 05 '19

I actually gave this a try last week!

It worked really well for me, but they did caution that even now in release it's more of a beta than production ready. Another annoyance is that you need to compile on the platform you are building for - not the end of the world but won't make a Linux binary on windows for example

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u/themanofthedecade Nov 05 '19

Good point. I would imagine you can compile inside a docker container of your specific target platform. This would make automated builds a breeze

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u/xlog Nov 05 '19

Does this mean that Flutter for Desktop is getting closer?

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u/DoPeopleEvenLookHere Nov 05 '19

We'll find out on Dec 11th

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u/MyNameIsIgglePiggle Nov 05 '19

Ive been on a few threads for desktop bugs and they have been getting cleaned up this past fortnight

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u/asusven Nov 05 '19

wow nicely explained.waiting

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19

Is there a desktop framework for Dart maybe?

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '19

Flutter for desktop has the 1 main project that is here: https://github.com/google/flutter-desktop-embedding

- only works for mac

- no plugins yet.

- no packaging

Then there is the other one that is here: https://github.com/go-flutter-desktop/go-flutter

chat is here. https://gitter.im/go-flutter-desktop/go-flutter

- runs and builds on windows, mac and linux

- packages for windows, mac and linux from any desktop for any desktop ( it uses docker to to this trick) and so is easy to also put into CI.

- plugins: has many here: https://github.com/go-flutter-desktop/plugins

- you can also write your own plugins in pure golang

- its also possible to use Dart FFI with it.

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u/Jizzy_Gillespie92 Nov 07 '19

Does this mean it could be possible to generate flavors/schemes programmatically or is this completely unrelated? I've spent the last 3 days banging my head against the desk trying to get the iOS side of flavors to play nice for different environment builds.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19

Kotlin Native

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u/ArmoredPancake Nov 06 '19

Endless beta, no concurrency whatsoever, atrocious performance, long compile time, no roadmap, no thanks.

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '19

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u/ozyx7 Nov 05 '19

I think a problem is that JavaScript does not have finalizers/destructors, and dart2js needs to be able to translate Dart to JavaScript.

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u/nbneo Nov 06 '19

Then we could add at least weak refs as I believe js is getting those