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Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python

50 pointsby 4h agoflet.dev
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4h agoHN ↗

Interesting, looks like this is a framework built on Flutter.

3h agoHN ↗

Yeah, I have been doing a small poc for mobile, then did a web export (why not) and the entire web app is one giant <canvas> element.

I have never written web app with Flutter so this caught me by surprise.

2h agoHN ↗

Looks really interesting, but I notice that Bluetooth isn't in the supported services.

Sort of limits how useful it would be for me - Bluetooth is one of the only reasons I'd do a native app instead of PWA.

2h agoHN ↗

Using a to-do list app as the first example to advertise a new app framework is absolutely wild in Q3 2026.

2h agoHN ↗

Is it more fashionable to build an AI harness?

1h agoHN ↗

That's fine, but a blog doesn't seem technically more demanding or interesting than a to-do list

24m agoHN ↗

They didn't even show a prompt box with starry icon button!

1h agoHN ↗

Python needs to be in less places not more.

I believe Python has done more harm than good to the industry.

Its by nature very inefficient, it leads you in the direction to some very poor abstractions (inheritance, monkey patching, mixins etc) and as a result code that is very prone to subtle bugs and issues.

It deserves all the love it gets as an approachable language, but it deserves a lot more flack for everything else.

1h agoHN ↗

Please no, python should be deprecated at this age, especially in the era of llm, horrible language from the performance to the dependencies to everything, can’t believe it got popular over perl back in the day

1h agoHN ↗

I used it quite a bit for writing tools for applications like Maya and Blender as it's the only fully supported API surface. I take it it's pretty bad for anything more complex. I notice it's used quite a bit in science and math communities too.

27m agoHN ↗

It's not. OP just has a hate-on for Python. Python is widely used in many domains and has one of the richest ecosystems of packages.

1h agoHN ↗

Performance isn’t important for any of the millions of things I use python for. I learned Perl first and gladly gave it up for syntax readability and easy of use over the years.

Pick the tool that’s right for you and the job, arguing against something based on your specific preferences should be seen as an argument without merit. I gave up Perl around the turn of the millennium, maybe it improved sense, but I really hated it back then-but I don’t go around badmouthing it and telling people to get rid of it.

Python is almost as ubiquitous as html, css, etc. It’s everywhere

20m agoHN ↗

I don’t understand the points attempted to be made here.

especially in the era of LLM

Using a tool to generate a product in a language that someone isn’t familiar with is not a good idea.

horrible language from the performance…

Nor is it a good idea to choose a language strictly for its performance when requirements like portability and framework maturity are at the forefront.

…to the dependencies…

Dependency management isn’t the greatest, but it’s also not awful for a deployed product. Managing dependencies as a developer with multiple projects that each have their own virtual environment may not be fun but it’s not exactly an impossible mess.

…to everything

   from __future__ import everything

can’t believe it got popular over Perl back in the day

And I’m sure people can’t believe that the iPod got more popular than the Zune, but sometimes convenience and taste are what drive decisions.

1h agoHN ↗

kivy, which does the same thing, has been around for over 10 years. I built my thesis in it a few years ago. not recommended—too many limitations and build issues in practice. given that this one is less mature...I'm not optimistic.

50m agoHN ↗

Is there a downloadable sample somewhere? Would like to see how large a native build is.

23m agoHN ↗

Is this build on top of flutter?

And for web, does it generate plain HTML/CSS, the DOM tree, or just generate everything in a canvas?