I wish I could share this sentiment because Flutter really does look great, but ...

devxpy · on Dec 29, 2018

That's very bold, considering the popularity of JavaScript, an esoteric, joke of a language in earlier times (no offence).

Bottom line, Its very safe to say that dart is a much better language than JS.

The language of choice has never ever, really mattered in software history.

And don't forget that the big G is behind this thing, which is well equipped to push it forward without the need of it being as popular as js.

pjmlp · on Dec 29, 2018

The big G dropped the ball on Dart 1.0, which was rescued by the AdWords team.

Right now Flutter/Dart looks like an ongoing political war between ChromeOS, Android and Fuchsia.

By the way, Fuchsia is getting Android suport and a new language agnostic UI composition engine, Scenic, so lets see for how long Flutter stays as the Fuchsia official UI toolkit.

devxpy · on Dec 29, 2018

Nice point about fushsia.

But isn't the point of a truly cross platform framework just that? So what if fuschia has a different native toolkit. Maybe they are trying to launch a platform specific api that's more bare metal.

I mean Isn't the whole point of flutter is that you take the same app and run it anywhere?

cube2222 · on Dec 30, 2018

What do you mean with "Fuchsia is getting Android support"?

pjmlp · on Dec 30, 2018

Android is being ported to work on Fuchsia as well, just like it happened with ChromeOS.

https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/fuchsia