Canonical Is Using Mir To Bring Flutter To Wayland

[JackLilhammers]

Flutter could change the game, I'm excited about it, but I always wonder if it was really necessary to use a relatively niche language.
Plus dartfmt sucks.
I just can't stand 2 spaces indentation. Makes reading code way harder for me.

[Nuc!eoN]

Canonical finally doing something right?

Can't wait for mir and flutter

[oleid]

Okay, please someone explain, I'm lost. Flutter seems to be an UI toolkit. Which already uses GTK+ on Linux on X11.

Mir is nowadays a Wayland compositor.

Why do you need a Wayland compositor to port an UI toolkit to Wayland? Clearly, I must be missing something.

[Britoid]

I'd be concerned if Mir became a hard dependency of Flutter given the licensing around Canonical projects.

[Awesomeness]

Luckily nothing of importance uses Flutter.

[Calinou]

Whenever I read about Flutter, I think of Fluttershy. :3

I thought I was the only one thinking that. :P

[Zeioth]

It sound terrible, thank you.

[SpyroRyder]

I. Told. You.


When will you grasp the fact that Mir is now a Wayland compositor?

I am not the one denying that, I just find it weird that Mir is the story here. That they're building a Wayland backend is the story, that they're testing it with Mir really isn't. Now if Flutter truly was only going to work with Mir that would be something else but that'd be weird because of how Wayland works.

[Vistaus]

Luckily nothing of importance uses Flutter.

Various Android apps use Flutter, including some of the more popular ones.

[Charlie68]

To everyone who says Mir is a failure: Please remember that Mir is just a Wayland compositor now.



Saaaaameeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Except I am not a fan of that anymore...

If you design a skyscraper and get a parking space, the failure is evident, however you will have your parking space.