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Probably the #1 most popular, mature, and likely-to-actually-work-on-your-machine cross platform UI framework today is Flutter. And there are very few programm

Probably the #1 most popular, mature, and likely-to-actually-work-on-your-machine cross platform UI framework today is Flutter. And there are very few programmers out there who would otherwise be touching Dart (its implementation language) with a ten foot pole. I understand that Hacker News is a place where "... written in Rust!" is often a sure technique for making a post reach the front page. But the reality is that implementation language has very loose coupling with real-life success.

Apocryphon 4y ago
Dart, if I remember rightly, was originally Google's attempt at replacing JavaScript. Embedding it in Chrome didn't happen so that's where the pivot to powering Flutter happened. I think it's one of those cases where it's less that there's anything wrong with the language, so much as it doesn't really have a reason to exist yet other than the one framework it is used in. As far as these cross-platform frameworks go, being written in a popular language guarantees nothing. I've pointed out before there's a bunch of random obscure frameworks out there that use Python that have fairly low traction. Which always made me wonder why they were being created in the first place. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25490496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25490496 There even was a PHP one. https://this-is-r-gaurav.medium.com/build-mobile-apps-with-php-have-some-kik-in-life-100621c511ea https://this-is-r-gaurav.medium.com/build-mobile-apps-with-p...