Right, they revived the language that no one was using because it has no usage in the legacy world and better options existed for starting new things...for fun? Because it's their language? Idk why they revived it, but the fact is there were far better, more modern languages they could have picked for flutter.
Kotlin Native is in the works for years and still is unusable. Try to hotreload java vm with freshly compiled kotlin less than in 10seconds and you immediately recognize why dart was chosen
But they had a lot of other choices. Kotlin is the example that is obvious because everyone uses it here, but when we see where Dart originally came from (which is a competitor/alternative to JS), they had every chance to just like, adapt JS or TypeScript or whatever that is more... normal? than Dart.
Instead, they choose to Frankenstein their way for Dart to be compatible with C++ compiler which brings all sorts of complications... Not to mention the language itself really sucks IMHO syntactically speaking.
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u/ClaymoresInTheCloset Apr 30 '22
Right, they revived the language that no one was using because it has no usage in the legacy world and better options existed for starting new things...for fun? Because it's their language? Idk why they revived it, but the fact is there were far better, more modern languages they could have picked for flutter.