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Re:Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps by childintime on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:51AM (#16475238)
Dart was conceived as better than Javascript, but it ended up drawing the short straw in the browser. It ended up with shit on its face, so to say. So people identify Dart with that expression.

But nothing could be further from the truth. It is a modern productivity language, like Kotlin. Anyone will be productive in a matter of a few days.

With such a low barrier, why then carry on the legacy of Javascript with its weird edge cases? So I think Google made the right call.

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Re:Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps by moocowtruck on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @12:53PM (#16475972)
>why then carry on the legacy of Javascript with its weird edge cases?

but many languages could have done that, instead google chose the route to create another not much has improved here language, other than..they made it

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Re:Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps by teen on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:10PM (#16476791)
What's wrong with using multiple languages?
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