Jeff Ward / is on Nostr

Senior Software Engineer - Flutter SDK at Datadog. Game industry ex-pat (Bethesda, Orbus, Fire Hose). Hobbyist indie dev and board game design. Dart embedder.

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2024-09-10 14:23:00

A reminder that I'll be speaking at Fluttercon USA this year, talking about embedding Dart.
https://flutterconusa.dev/speaker/jeff-ward/
The talk goes over most of the steps necessary to do so, and has examples from my own game engine embedding and a little bit about the struggles making Godot Dart.
The talk should be recorded and available after if you miss it!
#Flutter #DartLang #ftcon24usa

2024-08-28 13:04:22

Seeing so Flutter nay sayers complaining that Dart is a "dead language" or "dying a slow death of neglect at Google" and I feel like that's a [citation needed] moment.
Like, I get that if Flutter dies, Dart might goes with it, but Dart sees 12-15 commits / day to just the SDK repo. I don't know that many dead or dying projects that see that much activity.

2024-08-05 13:29:41

Type checking in this TypeScript project apparently takes 13 minutes?

2024-07-18 14:53:59

Oh the horrors of pulling a mono-repo you don't work on regularly 😭

2024-05-17 17:46:39

Ugh, one weirdly annoying thing about cross platform development is how to capitalize iOS in variable and function names:
getiOSSimulators?
getIosSimulators?
getiOsSimulators?
getIOSSimulators?

2023-09-07 14:17:26

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@npub1src…fms4 I think the key for us was keeping a lot of that in the native layer. C# was *just* our scripting language, which Unity doesn't really do.

2023-09-07 13:59:29

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@npub1src…fms4 I would like to point out I also made a game engine that used mono for scripting and it had few to no GC pauses.
Just saying.