Re:Announcing Flutter beta 1: Build beautiful native apps
by munificent on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:00PM
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> However, kotlin, rust and go all offer counter points to your argument with regard to languages.
I don't think that's true.
Kotlin was pretty well baked when first publicly launched. Most of the syntax, semantics, non-nullable types, etc. was all there on day one. There have been lots of changes since then, of course, but Kotlin is still roughly the same language it was before. It's not like it's turned into a Lisp or something.
Rust has made more significant changes since they launched, but most of the foundational questions have the same answers that they did on day one: maximize safety and performance and be willing to accept complexity and strict compile errors to get it.
> This kind of comment from the Dart team (aka. community has nothing to offer us)
I'm sorry, but I think that's a very uncharitable reading of what I wrote.
I don't think that's true.
Kotlin was pretty well baked when first publicly launched. Most of the syntax, semantics, non-nullable types, etc. was all there on day one. There have been lots of changes since then, of course, but Kotlin is still roughly the same language it was before. It's not like it's turned into a Lisp or something.
Rust has made more significant changes since they launched, but most of the foundational questions have the same answers that they did on day one: maximize safety and performance and be willing to accept complexity and strict compile errors to get it.
> This kind of comment from the Dart team (aka. community has nothing to offer us)
I'm sorry, but I think that's a very uncharitable reading of what I wrote.