{"id":14846,"date":"2026-01-28T00:15:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/?p=14846"},"modified":"2026-01-28T00:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T23:15:31","slug":"flutter-a-necessary-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monodes.com\/predaelli\/2026\/01\/28\/flutter-a-necessary-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Flutter? A necessary evil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Flutter SDK<\/a> is available only for Linux x64. MacOS has ARM and x64 packages, Windows has x64. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This make developing on Raspberry a real chore, not to speak *BSD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This makes me distrust the language as it seems a little to much under the whims of the GAFAM that controls it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

On the contrary languages like Python and Eiffel are available on a lot of CPUs. They are even available for an Amiga which uses the ancient m68k<\/a> processors. Rust, Zig which are relatively young languages currently run on eight different <\/strong>CPU architectures on Linux (x86_64, aarch64, arm, riscv64, powerpc64, x86, loongarch64 and s390x), six on FreeBSD, four on NetBSD. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s why I turned to flet.dev, i.e. flutter apps in Python<\/a> and keeping an eye on Rinf: Rust in Flutter<\/a>. With a proper design that keeps the GUI logically separated from the logic it would be easy to port to other interfaces (I have told you that GTK4 finally includes<\/a> an experimental Android backend?). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, there is Qt. But it requires to “interact” with C++ and more importantly last time I checked Qt 6 still uses the moc preprocessor<\/a> which means that it is not “standard” C++ and more importantly makes interfacing with it a real chore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Flutter SDK is available only for Linux x64. MacOS has ARM and x64 packages, Windows has x64. This make developing on Raspberry a real chore, not to speak *BSD. This makes me distrust the language as it seems a little to much under the whims of the GAFAM that controls it.<\/p>\n

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