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		freedomben on Dec 5, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.... Is there any alternative to XML? How often do you find yourself hacking XML directly?

kllrnohj on Dec 5, 2018 [–]

Your layouts & styles are typically all in XML. But honestly I don't find it bad - it's not "proper" XML, so there's not a ton of cruft. It's really more like XHTML.

It works fine.

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