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Ask HN: What do you think of the Dart language?
I don't often see submissions related to this language with the exception of a few posts about FLUTTER. I am starting to use it now and would like to have a general opinion about the language. Especially if you have previous experience with similar more established languages.
Thank you very much for your help.
- austincheney 6y agoDart is OOP and class based. That makes not want to spend time with it. I am not a fan of class based applications.
- colesantiago 6y agowhy?
- austincheney 6y agoComplexity. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/ https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/ The goal of class based OOP is extension. When something is extended you then have the original and an extended derivative. What was one is now two, or more. That might be easy, but it certainly is complex. Complexity is to make many. I prefer simplicity and predictability.
- non-entity 6y agoI take it you're unemployed then?
- austincheney 6y agoI’ve never had trouble finding work as a senior software engineer, but currently I’ve managed to escape the nonsense. I have found from working in Java heavy industries that people most reliant on OOP tend be school educated developers with little or no capacity for self education. These tend to be the developers most concerned with job security. Very few (almost none) self-taught developers I’ve known openly embrace OOP as their preferred paradigm. High insecurity among software developers is why I’ve grown to dislike writing software in the corporate world and why I was happy to accept a management opportunity doing something unrelated.
- colesantiago 6y agowhat would you recommend instead?