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We need to learn yet another language (Dart)? No thanks.
by gjmacd 7y ago
We need to learn yet another language (Dart)? No thanks.
- michaelchisari 7y agoIt's a bloody simple language to learn if you already know one of the similar modern typed languages (Typescript, Swift, Kotlin, etc). You can honestly pick it up in a weekend, there's nothing particularly new or groundbreaking.
- cztomsik 7y agolanguage itself is never a problem, you can learn fortran too, but you'd be on your own with most of the tasks
- _eric 7y agoAgreed. I love Typescript and picking up Dart has been quiet easy. Of course there's much more than the language itself, but other than one detail or another, tha transition seems to be fairly easy.
- pacala 7y agoThe language is easy. One can also learn English in 5 minutes: SUBJ-VERB-[JJ]*-OBJ, done! The library ecosystem and best practices on the other hand...
- cztomsik 7y agoYeah, that's one of the 2 major concerns I have with flutter: - new lang, platform, libs, tools, everything, it's like let's just dump 20ys of what we already have (either javascript or java/kotlin) - excessive nesting (border, center, etc. it's much worse than html and I'd consider even that to be over what I'd like to have) BTW: I'm working on subset of react-native for desktop (not yet ready) https://github.com/cztomsik/stain/tree/master/src https://github.com/cztomsik/stain/tree/master/src
- otobrglez 7y agoExactly. Why o why is this not written in a way to support TypeScript?
- ausjke 7y agoFlutter looks great, except for the fact that is yet-another-language, why??? otherwise I might put some time into it, the Dart decision is unwise to me. Life is too short to get good of so many languages(esp the eco-systems behind each)