What is everyone's take on the future of Flutter for Desktop? It's exciting to think that it could be a viable alternative to Electron or Qt but the fact that this is enabled entirely by third-party projects concerns me. Is Flutter for Desktop something that has a future? Will apps built with these tools be maintainable a year from now? At what point would you say it's safe to invest time building and deploying projects built with it?
- I dislike javascript for large projects because even the best tooling is lacking, and the exploding dependency count.
- I love C#, but WPF renders worse than Electron (and Windows only).
- WinForms - mothballed.
- VB6/Delphi are EOL.
- UWP - Very lacking, will probably be abandoned.
- Java - I have no experience.
It will be a case of Flutter sucking less than the current options. Dart is actually a nice language, especially considering the runtime size - there's no framework overhead/bloat.
I imagine it to be Electron, but with a decent set of widgets and without the overhead.
Edit - to answer the main question:
Personally, I wouldn't develop anything more than a throw-away or personal project right now, but it's worth keeping an eye on it.
It would be nice to have a cross-device framework.
Experimenting is the key word there. From the caveats section of their readme: "This is not an officially supported Google product." It's promising if they decide to officially support but it's dubious until then.
