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Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by thrownaway954 on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:47PM (#18603870)
No one uses Dart. No one is going to switch from React or Vue to Flutter when they can't bring over their TypeScript skills and tooling. It was a stupid, arrogant decision on Google's par, end of story.
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Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by Zerocchi on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @08:43PM (#18605128)
As someone who use Java a lot and don't favor Javascript I'm grateful there is Dart.
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Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by shrewduser on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:01PM (#18605601)
Typescript isn't JavaScript
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Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by leeman2016 on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @04:10AM (#18606747)
In fact, one of the best thing about typescript is that you can bring in almost everything you know about javascript into the game.

It took me few days to pick it up when moving from JS to typescript. I don't get it when people say it is complex or adds complexity.

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Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by kkarakk on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @06:02AM (#18607241)
> I don't get it when people say it is complex or adds complexity.

js is the complexity people are worried about. the number 1 reason i'm considering going to flutter over react is having to learn js

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Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by ssijak on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @07:04AM (#18607519)
I will. I am grateful that something like flutter exists and learning dart is very easy and would never be a showstopper for me. It is not like that we are not required to learn large amount of platforms and languages anyway.
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