Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0

Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by snaky on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @03:45PM (#18603434)

They won't stop pushing Dart, thanks to success of Go, yet another 'good enough for the job' mediocre (at best) language.

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Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by dreamer7 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:22PM (#18603704)

I'm curious to know your thoughts on what makes Dart a mediocre language. At first glance, it seems to be merging the best of both worlds (can be AOT compiled for prod and JIT for dev)

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Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by bpye on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:15PM (#18605644)

I would kinda even prefer Go. Learning Dart is really specific to Flutter, I wouldn't end up using it for anything else. Go is kinda useful.

I have played with Flutter before and liked it, but was annoyed about the lack of what are now called PlatformViews. I might give it another shot now.

I just wish I could consume it from a different language, Go, TypeScript.... C# even Kotlin. I don't love learning a language for a single purpose if I can help it.

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