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Ask HN: Is Dart/Flutter worth learning, from a practical standpoint?
I'm a relatively pragmatic person, perhaps more so than some programmers. If I'm going to learn a new language, it's because there's something I want from it, not usually because I'm simply curious. Dart struck me as a particularly nice language - it's statically typed which plays to my personal preferences and experience (background in C# mostly), it compiles both to JS for personal game-and-graphics-related projects, and to native x64 for practical work-related projects, and it has Flutter as a companion framework for UI.
That said, it seems like I rarely hear of projects being written in Dart, and the apparent lack of community-written packages concerns me. The only articles I find about it only speak its praises, or give criticisms that are too out-of-date to be valuable. Does anyone have thoughts to share on why I shouldn't learn Dart, or is it actually as nice as the articles I'm finding make it sound?
- endofreach 5y agoIf i recall correctly, dart will be important for fuchsia. The whole UI is flutter. Dart might be getting more relevant for the core, it might not. i think this will be an interesting opportunity for a „responsive“ OS. I haven‘t had time to dive into it, but i for sure think dart will be my entry point. There will be more sophisticated replies here obviously, just wanted to leave this here. Next lang for me will be dart.
- numilani 5y agoWow, I didn't even realize project fuchsia was still a thing until you reminded me of it. I remember hearing about it for a while and then...nothing. Just assumed Google had dropped the project silently until I did a search for it just now.