HN can be hostile against Dart and Flutter (and Java, C# and other non-hipster languages), but there is no technical reason for it. JavaScript is a mediocre too

HN can be hostile against Dart and Flutter (and Java, C# and other non-hipster languages), but there is no technical reason for it. JavaScript is a mediocre tool for software development, but for some reason people think they will be using it until the end of times. If Flutter works for you, keep using it. It is open source (!= Google service), it is productive, and there are no signs that Google is abandoning it; on the contrary, it seems that more efforts are put behind: Dart language and tooling improved a lot since 2.0 (+ non-nullable types coming soon), Flutter getting support for Web, Mac and potentially other platforms...