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Impeller renderer is about 100 KB [0]. You still need to add things like text layouting library and image codecs to that size. A few MB in total I guess, but much less than a full web engine. While Flutter could be used to draw UI to…

comment by zigzag312 · 2025-10-07 · in Using Deno as my game engine

Impeller - Flutter’s rendering library that replaces Skia on iOS and Android - is working on a C API: https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/main/impeller/toolkit...

comment by loic-sharma · 2024-12-04 · in Skia Canvas: Browserless implementation of the HTML Canvas drawing API for node

https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/main/impeller/docs/fa... discusses the reasoning a bit. There's more of a difference in the approach

comment by xster · 2024-10-28 · in We're forking Flutter

…so you can see the actual committers, e.g. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/graphs/contributors https://github.com/flutter/engine/graphs/contributors https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/graphs/contributors As for flutterfoundation.dev, it…

comment by eseidel · 2024-10-28 · in We're forking Flutter

…You can easily estimate by checking github pulse: https://github.com/flutter/flutter/pulse/monthly https://github.com/flutter/engine/pulse/monthly Also take into account inflated commits by CI bots: engine-flutter-autoroll,…

comment by pzo · 2024-10-28 · in We're forking Flutter

…that this doesn’t even include their rendering engine which had another 90+ closed pull requests https://github.com/flutter/engine/pulse The truth of the matter is that Flutter is actually is far better shape both from a technical and open…

comment by mdhb · 2024-08-12 · in Show HN: Rust GUI Library via Flutter

…ported to WASM and also that Impeller shaders can be compiled to WGSL for eventual WebGPU support. https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/main/impeller/docs/fa...

comment by zigzag312 · 2024-06-30 · in Show HN: Thermion, an open source 3D rendering toolkit for Flutter and/or Dart

https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/main/impeller/docs/fa... Impeller is the Skia replacement and is in full c++ that supports all platforms. It will be great if Go team can work with them(both are in Google) and make Impeller a render…

comment by synergy20 · 2023-07-18 · in Ten years of “Go: The good, the bad, and the meh”

Flutter is moving to using Impeller, which is the faster replacement you're talking about: https://github.com/flutter/engine/tree/main/impeller

comment by cercatrova · 2022-12-19 · in Show HN: Forma – An efficient vector-graphics renderer

…DOM although both are supported) and rewrite the rendering engine which is currently happening here https://github.com/flutter/engine/tree/main/impeller I don’t suspect those problems will remain on web for very long, that looks like a…

comment by mhoad · 2022-05-08 · in Ask HN: How to build a desktop app in 2022

…ABI and is available in its entirety in a single C header file [1]. It's ideal for embedding. [1] https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/080fbcb1759e5916f0d6c...

comment by rhencke · 2020-12-08 · in Qt 6.0

Thank you! I did an hour and a half of reading last night on these. Especially on https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4358 . Very, very interesting and certainly put me on a watch out about Flutter. Also, this should really be a top…

comment by p2detar · 2018-11-24 · in Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly

…causes memory pressure). https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/6827 (opened Nov 2016 ) https://github.com/flutter/engine/pull/4358 ("closed" due to being rejected) https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/15479…

comment by saurik · 2018-11-23 · in Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly

The Flutter engine has an embedding API that is intended for this purpose: https://github.com/flutter/engine/tree/master/shell/platform...

comment by cmrdporcupine · 2018-11-23 · in Flutter: the good, the bad and the ugly

Whoops sorry - I mistook the link for this one: https://github.com/flutter/engine/wiki/Custom-Flutter-Engine...

comment by MarkMc · 2018-06-21 · in Announcing Flutter Release Preview 1

…by timing the work we do building frames and scheduling small GCs during idle time. Code here: https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/8109be8e21604df249b87...

comment by cbracken · 2018-02-27 · in Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps

…layers, a layout engine, etc. – all components necessary for modern mobile app development. [1] https://github.com/flutter/engine

comment by conradev · 2017-02-23 · in A Simple Rust GUI with QML

C++ 76.4%, Python 10.6%, Dart 5.7%, Java 3.0%, Objective-C 1.7%, C 1.2%, Other 1.4% source: https://github.com/flutter/engine

comment by frik · 2015-11-06 · in Flutter – Cross-platform mobile framework from Google

…a little more experience in the real world. Not using braces is an accident waiting to happen. https://github.com/flutter/engine/blob/master/sky/specs/styl... if a flow control structure's statement is one line long, then don't use braces…

comment by lucio · 2015-11-06 · in Flutter – Cross-platform mobile framework from Google

…has some examples of what Flutter apps actually look like (just the code I mean, not screenshots): https://github.com/flutter/engine/tree/master/examples

comment by pavlov · 2015-11-06 · in Flutter – Cross-platform mobile framework from Google

Google is working on it: https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine and https://github.com/dart-lang/fletch

comment by low_battery · 2015-09-14 · in React Native for Android

…They are making hundreds of commits each week. I think there are more demos but not yet ready ( https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine/tree/fb814cabf61c1bd3b... ).

comment by afsina · 2015-07-24 · in See Android Go

…Dart. Some heavy weight developers are frantically working on it. https://github.com/domokit/mojo https://github.com/domokit/sky_engine

comment by afsina · 2015-07-24 · in See Android Go