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Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by amimetic on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:05PM (#18604331)
Dart is strongly typed and pre-compiled, at least when packaged. It can run in interpreted mode in development for live/hot reload: a major advantage over Swift. Flutter also provides a first class Reactive UI story: something sorely lacking in native iOS (or Mac) development.

PS Java (or Kotlin) are AOT compiled in all recent versions of Android.

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Re:Google's cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit goes 1.0 by dep_b on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:54PM (#18604611)
> Dart is strongly typed and pre-compiled, at least when packaged. It can run in interpreted mode in development for live/hot reload: a major advantage over Swift.

Ah, that's how they do it. That's neat! But the language still has to deal with JavaScript compatibility.

> PS Java (or Kotlin) are AOT compiled in all recent versions of Android.

But it's still a mess to call native code. And still has Java garbage collection.

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