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Allowing another year for some kind of volume of sales that might justify the development of apps etc suggests we are a long way off this being a supported, mainstream computing platform.

Comment · 4 years ago

Is there really a minimum of 3? It seems to offer a "Just me" option.

I also noticed it seems to include something equivalent to a standard zoom subscription so this whole thing might save me money!

PS A lot of the comparison tables etc are confusing and in past I noticed (I'm in UK) the offer details vary by country.

Comment · 5 years ago

The economic theory would be something like given lack of (senior) engineers, salaries should rise to expected marginal revenue.

Conflating actual outcomes in real markets with economic theory is typically unhelpful.

Comment · 5 years ago

As I’d guess most people spend most of their time in Chromium browsers and electron apps probably a case to make that ‘native’ in the sense you imply is Chromium!

Comment · 5 years ago

Stateful hot reload is pretty awesome when doing UI work. On desktop that is pretty hard to find.

Also, as a TypeScript/Swift/Kotlin person, Dart is fine; sure I’d like algebraic data types but overall it is good. The tooling (auto completion etc) is great. And it has a few cool unique(ish?) features like cascade and every class is an ‘interface’.

Comment · 5 years ago

It isn’t a theme per sae, really an alternate set of widgets: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/ui/widgets/cupertino

Comment · 5 years ago

This "Dev builds perfect note-taking system which only stores info about building note-taking systems": https://www.theolognion.com/dev-builds-perfect-note-taking-s... is well timed

Comment · 6 years ago

Pretty misleading headline, as fourth paragraph: "But overall, the country is actually using less energy because of businesses being closed."

Comment · 6 years ago

Today is a weird time to get into mobile app dev. The standard 'native' UI frameworks are pretty terrible in terms of how they cope with complexity and their ability to change over time with their dated OOP APIs. Though on both platforms the tooling has been climbing ever upwards towards local maxima.

The best options available for most Apps today (even if just for a single platform) are typically React Native or Flutter. With their React(-ish) UI approaches you can both quickly build and iterate in the future.

SwiftUI is not ready for most uses (I've shipped a small but non trivial app https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pattern-maker/id1484249212 and was surprised by how many bugs there are for very standard things and how many hacks seemed to be required). Jetpack Compose seems to be at an even earlier stage. I expect both will be great but probably not for some time.

Comment · 6 years ago

I was addressing the comment and in no way claimed Android doesn’t have a hot reload solution.