Jacob Richman

developer experience for @flutterdev @dart_lang
he/him

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@furkangozukara @ntaylormullen You can paste images up to ~4mb. How much text do you need to paste in the input prompt? We're optimizing the input prompt right now so would be great to understand your use case to ensure we are targeting sufficiently large pastes.

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@intellectronica @ntaylormullen Thanks for flagging! filed https://t.co/fGhDY1MJMD to track.

[Colaboratory @GoogleColab]

The new AI-first Colab is now generally available ✨🤝🧡
This version has an agentic collaborator run with Gemini 2.5 Flash, and enhances productivity with features like iterative querying, a next-gen data science agent, code transformation, and more to significantly improve coding workflows for developers.

[Michael Thomsen @MiSvTh]

Look at that, the 2nd and 3rd most downloaded JetBrains plugins in 2023 look mighty familiar!

Source: https://t.co/XR46gyYkaB

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@kamranbekirovyz Very nice! Thought of making it a Flutter DevTools Extension as well as on device?

[kevmoo @kevmoo]

Dart/Flutter fans:

Yelling at haters/deniers "See the `DEBUG` tag in the top right? That's Flutter!"

Also yelling (at Gemini folks): "Don't demo debug builds! Production builds are faster!"

[Michael Thomsen @MiSvTh]

This years Slashdata State of Dev is out:

* Dart was the fastest-growing language community in 2023; now estimated at 2.9M devs
* Dart grew by roughly 33%; a faster pace than other app languages (e.g. Swift 21%)

🙏 awesome Dart & Flutter communities!

https://t.co/glWrQN6N8A

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@simcdev @VGVentures Great. Hoping it is a bug for most users.
Case it would be a feature:
Your project includes both an sample using get version 4.6 and using get version 3.26. We need to resolve multiple versions of the get package within the single project to open both samples.

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@simcdev @VGVentures Is it a bug or a feature for you that right now each of those ~100 packages is performing its own package version solve resulting in potentially incompatible versions? The analyzer could use significantly less memory if guaranteed a single version solve for the project.

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@simcdev @VGVentures Format should be fast.
If you run `dart format your_file.dart` from the command line does it take 10-15s or a fraction of a second?
It is possible you have code-actions-on-save that are exceedingly slow. See editor.codeActionsOnSave to turn them off.

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@simcdev @VGVentures Extreme slowness on save is odd. How long do file save take? With the default config no blocking work should happen on save.
Can you check the memory usage? 10 simultaneous packages make cause you to have almost 10X the analyzer memory usage you should causing a other issues.

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@simcdev @VGVentures Is the issue excessive analysis server memory usage or something else? How many Dart packages do you have open in VSCode at a time?

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@MaxStranger7 @VGVentures What are the biggest gaps you see in the IDE support?

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@dan_vilela_ @VGVentures What did you prefer about it in 2018?

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@simcdev @VGVentures Which tools are slow for you?

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@SebAaltonen We'd love to be able to debug the crash you are seeing. Are there repro steps?
If you are ever using DevTools again and have difficulty with crashes, you can use import and export to avoid losing data if DevTools crashes. https://t.co/djSnhgEJIL

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@SebAaltonen That issue is also fixed if you try the Flutter beta channel. We've stopped attempting to process cpu profile events upon clicking on a frame and switched to a faster trace viewer.
https://t.co/VsXejj1rZr

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@RydMike @theGoldyMan @FlutterDev @code @androidstudio @intellijidea Please thumbs up https://t.co/LfPZR1lqIC
if you want the platform toggle.

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@theGoldyMan @RydMike @FlutterDev @code @androidstudio @intellijidea I've filed https://t.co/8lrGWUe0eV
to add a dense mode. Please thumbs up if you would fine that useful.

[Jacob Richman @jrichman]

@_eseidel @RydMike @FlutterDev @dcarew I've filed https://t.co/LfPZR1lqIC
to add the platform toggle (easy)
and https://t.co/8lrGWUe0eV
to track an optional mode to make the UI denser. Please thumbs up the issues if you would find these useful so we can prioritize them.