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3. It shouldn’t. Authors can skip AI assets if they want, just like they can skip other optional package assets.
2. I expect discoverability on pub.dev will be fine. Things like the package name, score, or popularity have the highest impact on rankings. Other metadata is mostly used for matching.
1. Could you expand on the bloat concern? The proposal is for text files. I’d expect minimal incremental impact. Pub has very strict size limits too, much stricter than other ecosystems.
The proposal would add another tool the toolbox that folks can consider using if they think it’s right for them.
You can ignore it entirely if you want, just like you can ignore Dart analyzer plugins.
However, that’s not how I see it. Software is hard. Too hard. There’s infinite ways to make things easier. Dart’s and Flutter’s job should be to provide solid foundations that unlock the community’s creativity. [4/n]
For example, we might add lints for common mistakes when authoring render objects.
You could argue this accommodates broken Flutter APIs. You could also argue that this increases the burden for package authors, since they now should consider creating analyzer plugins for their packages. [3/n]
I disagree with the premise. Here’s a counter example:
We recently added Dart analyzer plugins, which let you add lints and fixes for your package. We’ll use these to help devs use the Flutter SDK better. [2/n]
(To clarify, these are my personal thoughts from the sidelines. I’m just a random engineer that‘s not even on the team driving this proposal!) [1/n]
I think that‘s a perfectly reasonable take, but I also think it’s also perfectly reasonable to write AI-specific docs. I think it’s best if Pub gives author the freedom to choose what’s best for their package.
I disagree. There’s an implicit assumption here that one doc can meet all needs.
However, good docs are separated based on needs: tutorials to accomplish tasks, explanations to teach concepts, references, etc.
This lets you write AI specific docs, if that’s what you feel is best for your package.
Not increasing maintainers’ burden resonates with me. However, shouldn’t we also provide the necessary plumbing for package maintainers that *do* want to build new AI experiences?
Flutter has such incredible momentum right now. 🎯 Just to name a few things that are happening:
1️⃣ Toyota is building a fully fledged 3D game engine in Dart.
2️⃣ Xiaomi is rewriting all its core system apps in Flutter.
3️⃣ India's largest bank, SBI YONO, is moving its app to Flutter.
Gotcha. Great talk at FOSDEM by the way :)
Very cool! Is Fluorite compatible with “vanilla” Flutter, or does it require an SDL3 embedder?
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Great article! What are some projects that use this model?
When we switched the examples to use flutter_lints, the new checks lit up! We found over 100 API samples using deprecated code that had gone unnoticed. 🤯
We are fixing all of them now to ensure our docs are best-in-class.
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