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Just rolled out my first prod release with Shorebird included. Let's hope we won't have to use it. #flutter

Oh, super interested in hearing your experiences

In tst it worked flawlessly. We distribute the tst flavor of the app through testflight and closed lane in google play - the updates among the team were quite seamless, didn't notice any performance impact. For now the only significant change is the bundle size increase (+9MB on iOS, +2 on Android).

The bundle size is something we can bring way down, it's due to our Rust dependencies pulling in the kitchen sink. 😭 So few people have noticed in the last year that it's not made it to the top of the list yet: github.com/shorebirdtec...

Why does it include rust?

We wrote our updater code in rust. I’ll eventually convert it to C++ and that overhead will disappear. github.com/shorebirdtec...

A bit off topic but sometimes I wonder if devs are still going to be writing crucial parts of systems in c++ in year 2124. It seems to be immortal, in a good way

What recently really scared me is how alien modern c++ code looks to me. So different from when I used it.