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Would it be wiser if the Dart team and the Flutter team split up and let the Dart language grow outside the Flutter ecosystem? Because the only use case I see
by Alifatisk 3y ago
Would it be wiser if the Dart team and the Flutter team split up and let the Dart language grow outside the Flutter ecosystem?
Because the only use case I see with Dart is UI development, nothing else.
- pjmlp 3y agoFlutter is what rescued Dart from certain death, after Chrome stop caring and AdWords took over from what was left in Dart 1.0, as most well know language designers on the team like Gilad Bracha and Kasper Lund left Google.
- mdhb 3y agoThat information is about a decade out of date. In practice a bunch of new stuff is using it from the as yet unreleased Fuchsia OS and major products are being rewritten to take advantage of it (Google Earth comes to mind).
- pjmlp 3y agoFuchsia OS is going the way of the dodo, unfortunately. Which has been released onto smart displays, which you apparently missed. Since when has Google Earth lost its C++/WebAssembly/WebGL roots?
- mdhb 3y agoI’m not sure why you’re pretending to have some kind of secret insight on Fuchsia but you’re talking out of your ass here. And I don’t know what you think Flutter is built with but it’s C++ / WebAssembly and WebGL. https://x.com/FlutterDev/status/1708908434068779376 https://x.com/FlutterDev/status/1708908434068779376
- pjmlp 3y agoIt's public knowledge, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39005470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39005470 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36871673 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34515277 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34515277 You didn't even knew about its use in Nest Hub Smart Displays. I know how Flutter is implemented, thank you very much. Most likely is a very thin layer over existing Google Earth C++, unless you have some proof the C++ code was fully rewritten into Dart, beyond a simple tweet.