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Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by thosakwe on Saturday December 07, 2019 @01:51AM (#21728901)
This horse has been beaten to death. They wrote an article about their choice of language, anyways: https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebf
Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by pjmlp on Saturday December 07, 2019 @04:43AM (#21729364)
And now, Swift, C# and naturally Kotlin are coming up with similar tooling, which kind invalidates the reasoning why it had to be Dart, above all languages.

Not to mention that Flutter experience isn't nothing more than cute to anyone that has experience doing UI design on Common Lisp or Smalltalk environments, which I reckon all of us are quite old for SV standards.

EDIT: Or if you really want to be amazed go play with SELF.

Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by brabel on Saturday December 07, 2019 @04:57AM (#21729405)
> And now, Swift, C# and naturally Kotlin are coming up with similar tooling...

That may be true, but right now, none of them has something as polished and usable as Flutter. And it looks like it will be many years before they do, all the while Flutter keeps getting better. So, if you have time to wait for these other platforms to catch up, go ahead while people who need to write code right now can enjoy something else.

> EDIT: Or if you really want to be amazed go play with SELF.

Oh come'on, are you really suggesting something that looks straight out of the early 90's is something that would amaze anyone today? Or there's something that actually looks and behaves modern out of the Self and Smalltalk world (certainly was not the case last time I checked, a few years back)?

Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by pjmlp on Saturday December 07, 2019 @05:04AM (#21729431)
Yes they have, language ecosystems with decades of battle field deployments in production, while Dart still tries to make itself relevant.

What I am suggesting is that the reasoning why Dart instead of something else is flawed and can only be naively bought by those that lack experience in UI domain.

How pretty those UIs used to look like is secondary.

Flutter is being positioned to rescue Dart, and make it meaningful beyond the AdWord team, the place where it landed when all Dart designers eventually left Google.

Where is the "Google's Commitment to Dart" blog post?

Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by craftinator on Sunday December 08, 2019 @04:38AM (#21735093)
Personification of a programming language, nice. Flutter is ready to use, and is very rewarding for quickly building a specific use application; try it.
Re:Android’s Commitment to Kotlin by nl on Sunday December 08, 2019 @06:15AM (#21735360)
I think those reasons are entirely valid.

I don't see any reason why Typescript (for example) couldn't be made to meet them (relatively easily).