Before Flutter | Rubber Duck Engineering | Episode #100
What it is
A Rubber Duck Engineering episode on the years before Flutter, covering web projects and three JavaScript frameworks that influenced it, and the early DOM-based, network-loaded Flutter.
Why Hacker News recommends it
Recommended as an insider account of how Flutter came to be and why it chose Dart.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2023, last 2026
What HN commenters said
“This is a great podcast/video episode on how Flutter came to be”
How Flutter came to be and its early JS use
satvikpendem, 2023-02 · Recommendation · in “Flutter Desktop Isn't There Yet”
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Topics: flutter, dart, javascript frameworks, ui frameworks, engineering history
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