The rending engine should be Skia in a GTK+ shell. There’s no intermediate product of HTML when you run Flutter on Linux.
Windows and Linux support made this year into the main Flutter repo, so there aren’t yet many examples but there’s a lot of work going into making Flutter great on the desktop.
When starting a new project like the one you are proposing I think there’s a good chance that Flutter is the best platform even when the desktop support is still in it’s early stages.
Canonical works on getting Flutter to run well on Linux: https://medium.com/flutter/announcing-flutter-linux-alpha-with-canonical-19eb824590a9
The rending engine should be Skia in a GTK+ shell. There’s no intermediate product of HTML when you run Flutter on Linux.
Windows and Linux support made this year into the main Flutter repo, so there aren’t yet many examples but there’s a lot of work going into making Flutter great on the desktop.
When starting a new project like the one you are proposing I think there’s a good chance that Flutter is the best platform even when the desktop support is still in it’s early stages.
https://www.reddit.com/r/FlutterDev/comments/iqnwo5/what_are_good_flutter_desktop_apps_that_currently/ gives a list of existing desktop apps with Flutter.