Flutter desktop shells
Every so often for the past several years I&#x27;ll go evaluate options for cross-platform desktop app development and I always come back with an enormous handful of options and all of which fall short on some measure.<p>I would really think that this &quot;problem&quot; would have a great solution by now. But I think most of the developer attention is on web for obvious reasons (more ease, more conducive to mistakes&#x2F;novices&#x2F;etc).<p>However I think there should be way more desktop apps. I hate using services and having my data all on some remote service w&#x2F; little options for privacy and safety&#x2F;backup, etc. I also like the general speed of desktop apps (though I know the web is trying to pull on more desktop&#x2F;os resources) and I like the way desktop apps can interact with the host OS (creative windowing&#x2F;sidebar&#x2F;docking&#x2F;etc and utilization of system tray&#x2F;menu bar&#x2F;etc.)<p>I would much rather see my needs addressed by suites of standalone&#x2F;private desktop apps than by a bunch of URLs and Saas&#x27;s.<p>Interestingly, the HN zeitgeist seems to recently be turning its awares back to this topic (it seesm to me from recent HN threads). Is it? And if so, I wonder why? What&#x27;s in the air now?