Flutter: Developer Experience on Google’s React Native Competitor (matwrites.com) 5 points by d2p 8y ago ↗ HN
[–] rubyfan 8y ago ↗ Am I reading it right that it’s Dart based? Seems like a non-starter for many. [–] sebe 8y ago ↗ Here is an article on why flutter uses dart. https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebfSome tidbits from what I've read, etc, about Flutter -They moved to Dart from JavaScript three years ago, after looking at dozen of other languages.One of the flutter guys posted, the other day, that he had very poor opinion about Dart, just like the rest of the web, until he tried it.The dev build are JIT and has sub second stateful hot reload feature, which came from Dart. Release build compiles to native code.
[–] sebe 8y ago ↗ Here is an article on why flutter uses dart. https://hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-dart-dd635a054ebfSome tidbits from what I've read, etc, about Flutter -They moved to Dart from JavaScript three years ago, after looking at dozen of other languages.One of the flutter guys posted, the other day, that he had very poor opinion about Dart, just like the rest of the web, until he tried it.The dev build are JIT and has sub second stateful hot reload feature, which came from Dart. Release build compiles to native code.
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[ 23.5 ms ] story [ 704 ms ] threadSome tidbits from what I've read, etc, about Flutter -
They moved to Dart from JavaScript three years ago, after looking at dozen of other languages.
One of the flutter guys posted, the other day, that he had very poor opinion about Dart, just like the rest of the web, until he tried it.
The dev build are JIT and has sub second stateful hot reload feature, which came from Dart. Release build compiles to native code.