A radical idea for a (future) FriCAS GUI
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Qian Yun
Mar 19, 2021, 7:02:16 AM3/19/21
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Recently there is news about the release of Flutter 2.0, and Ubuntu
using it to build the future Ubuntu installer.
I'm a little interested in it and take a deeper look.
Short introduction, "Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building
beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and
desktop from a single codebase."
It is based on the Dart language. Frankly speaking, I like it somewhat.
Some of its language features are similar to SPAD, I would say.
Strong static typing with type deduction, its "abstract class" is a bit
like our "Category". It fits to my taste much better than JS.
About Flutter, its design philosophy appeals to me as well.
The underlying operating systems only provide a canvas and
Flutter provides all the widgets to do the rendering.
I'd say I would prefer to use Flutter than Qt (C++ or Python/JS binding)
to build the replacement of HyperDoc. Maybe I can make up my
mind and get a working demo before the end of this year (or next year),
for Linux/Windows/macOS/Web/Android/iOS.
- Qian
using it to build the future Ubuntu installer.
I'm a little interested in it and take a deeper look.
Short introduction, "Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building
beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and
desktop from a single codebase."
It is based on the Dart language. Frankly speaking, I like it somewhat.
Some of its language features are similar to SPAD, I would say.
Strong static typing with type deduction, its "abstract class" is a bit
like our "Category". It fits to my taste much better than JS.
About Flutter, its design philosophy appeals to me as well.
The underlying operating systems only provide a canvas and
Flutter provides all the widgets to do the rendering.
I'd say I would prefer to use Flutter than Qt (C++ or Python/JS binding)
to build the replacement of HyperDoc. Maybe I can make up my
mind and get a working demo before the end of this year (or next year),
for Linux/Windows/macOS/Web/Android/iOS.
- Qian
Dima Pasechnik
Mar 19, 2021, 9:06:10 AM3/19/21
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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 11:02 AM Qian Yun <oldk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Recently there is news about the release of Flutter 2.0, and Ubuntu
> using it to build the future Ubuntu installer.
>
> I'm a little interested in it and take a deeper look.
>
> Short introduction, "Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building
> beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and
> desktop from a single codebase."
>
> It is based on the Dart language. Frankly speaking, I like it somewhat.
> Some of its language features are similar to SPAD, I would say.
> Strong static typing with type deduction, its "abstract class" is a bit
> like our "Category". It fits to my taste much better than JS.
>
> About Flutter, its design philosophy appeals to me as well.
> The underlying operating systems only provide a canvas and
> Flutter provides all the widgets to do the rendering.
I'd stay away from Google's offerings, given how often they break/remove their
>
> Recently there is news about the release of Flutter 2.0, and Ubuntu
> using it to build the future Ubuntu installer.
>
> I'm a little interested in it and take a deeper look.
>
> Short introduction, "Flutter is Google’s UI toolkit for building
> beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and
> desktop from a single codebase."
>
> It is based on the Dart language. Frankly speaking, I like it somewhat.
> Some of its language features are similar to SPAD, I would say.
> Strong static typing with type deduction, its "abstract class" is a bit
> like our "Category". It fits to my taste much better than JS.
>
> About Flutter, its design philosophy appeals to me as well.
> The underlying operating systems only provide a canvas and
> Flutter provides all the widgets to do the rendering.
stuff, etc (it probably also has a big Google "platform" bias, too).
I'd choose something like elm (https://elm-lang.org/) instead. Yes, it
compiles to JS
and runs in a browser, but that's a plus, not a minus. Messing around
with a gazillion
different windowing enviroments is better left to other projects.
Or just conentrate on jupyter kernel for fricas, and showing docs there.
>
> I'd say I would prefer to use Flutter than Qt (C++ or Python/JS binding)
> to build the replacement of HyperDoc. Maybe I can make up my
> mind and get a working demo before the end of this year (or next year),
> for Linux/Windows/macOS/Web/Android/iOS.
>
> - Qian
>
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