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It's interesting what Flutter has done for Dart! Before Flutter, I used to think Dart was dead. Typescript had won. If Flutter for Desktop becomes a viable opti

It's interesting what Flutter has done for Dart! Before Flutter, I used to think Dart was dead. Typescript had won. If Flutter for Desktop becomes a viable option to create desktop apps, I think Electron will have a formidable competitor.

skoskie 6y ago
For the non-dart-speaking folks, what's flutter? Just a framework?
- quantummkv 6y ago
  Yeah. It's just a UI framework for Dart
- AnonC 6y ago
  > “Flutter is Google's UI toolkit for crafting beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from a single codebase.” [1] [1]: https://flutter.dev https://flutter.dev
- hajile 6y ago
  It's basically React-like components, but implements everything to target Skia rather than native or web. It's big interesting feature (to me) is that they added a native compiler so they can run on iOS (which forbids JITs). As a language though, Dart is MUCH better than Typescript. If you're going to go all-in on types, at least go with a decent type system rather than one who's core objectives explicitly do NOT include soundness. https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibility.html#a-note-on-soundness https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-compatibil...
yagodragon 6y ago
Is Flutter/Dart the Ruby on Rails of UI development? I know it may put some people off that we have to use a completely new language to solve problems we've already (kinda) solved, but I believe this time google got it right. The ideas, execution, tooling, and community are amazing. Give it an hour and you'll love it