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Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Flutter uses dart. It's one of the best ui building frameworks I have used. Not that it is perfect...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Flutter - the framework - is great. Dart as a language is tolerable - lot of ugly boilerplate, manual codegen, and things you can't quite express correctly are everywhere, but if you're not too much of a stickler, Flutter is still worth it (at least until Compose Multiplatform matures - if ever).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah totally agree. I can give it credit for being adapted for better accommodating flutter, but it has extremely many things where it does not come across as modern

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I would say it's not as good as really great languages like Rust, but it's much nicer than Python or JavaScript. I would say it's nicer than Typescript too. Typescript has a better type system but it's held back by JavaScript.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just hate reading it. I wish it looked more like Kotlin and less like JavaScript 😭

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

It’s the carcinisation of programming languages. Everything evolves into JavaScript.

Though let’s be real, even JavaScript evolves into Lisp.