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Re:The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language by hota_mazi on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:42AM (#33909050)
It's used in Flutter exclusively, and since Flutter is hardly used at all, it's a pretty unknown language, and will probably always remain so.

It doesn't help Dart that Kotlin and Swift have been null safe languages for a decade now.

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Re:The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language by amgreg on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:48AM (#33909136)
I wouldn’t dismiss Flutter out of hand. It’s more popular even than React Native!

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/21/why-flutter-is-the-mos...

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Re:The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language by jimbob45 on Thursday December 08, 2022 @11:04AM (#33909394)
More popular by the metric of...StackOverflow question tags. I'm not sure that I would use that as my preferred metric for language popularity.
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Re:The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language by wizofaus on Thursday December 08, 2022 @12:07PM (#33910298)
Indeed the perfect language/tech stack would be immensely popular and never have any SO questions, as everything would be obvious and easy to figure out without help...
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Re:The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language by UncleEntity on Thursday December 08, 2022 @07:17PM (#33915740)
… which is why hairdryers have warnings like “do not use while sleeping”.

I mean…

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Re:The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language by hota_mazi on Thursday December 08, 2022 @09:18PM (#33916561)
Not a very meaningful metric.

Take a look at job boards and see how many job postings you find for React compared to Flutter.

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