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Shorebird | Mid/Senior Software Engineer (Cloud) | REMOTE (North America) | Full-time | $150-220k + equity + benefits | https://shorebird.dev Flutter is used by millions of devs (a…

Shorebird | Mid-Senior Backend/Cloud Engineer (Dart) | REMOTE (North America) | Full-time | $150-220k + equity + benefits | https://shorebird.dev Flutter/Shorebird founder here. Fl…

Former Flutter Director, Shorebird founder here. Yes, that matches my understanding. The layoffs happened after I left Google, but yes Google appears to have simply off-shored the …

Shorebird | Mid-Senior C++/Runtime OR Dart/Cloud Engineers | REMOTE (North America) | Full-time | $150-230k + equity + benefits | https://shorebird.dev Flutter/Shorebird founder he…

Shorebird | Mid-Senior Systems/Runtime (C++) Engineer| REMOTE (North America) | Full-time | $160-230k + equity + benefits | https://shorebird.dev Flutter/Shorebird founder here. Fl…

Shorebird | Mid-Senior Web Full Stack | Remote (North America) | Full-time | $160-230k + equity + benefits | https://shorebird.dev Flutter/Shorebird founder here. Flutter is used b…

Shorebird | Mid-Senior across Web, Dart, Full Stack or C++ | Remote (North America) | Full-time | $150-230k + equity | https://shorebird.dev Flutter/Shorebird founder here. Flutter…

Google announced 2 years ago they would be adding "macros" support to the Dart language. They stopped that work yesterday. As former Eng Director of Dart (and co-founder of Flutter…

I agree, Dart's public-facing codegen system (build_runner) leaves a lot to be desired. (In part the problem is that Dart uses a separate system inside Google.) However, this is a …

I'm not sure what that would look like. Flutter mostly written in Dart itself (the framework, tooling, etc). The Flutter Engine (C++) is probably less than 1/3rd of Flutter, but co…

We considered Go! At the time it was much more designed for servers than mobile devices. If I recall correctly the minimum binary size was like 30mb or something.

I think you're not wrong about JS target being unnecessarily limiting. The problem is that a 250B/year business is written on top of Dart's JS transpiler (Google Ads) so it seems u…

Makes sense. Google is a very large and diverse place. (And sometimes a lot of unpleasant infighting and politicking around tech choices.)

We started Flutter in 2014 and made the decision to switch to Dart in ~Jan 2015 iirc.

I don't have a full answer for you, but I know a little. I've hacked on the Dart compiler some, but my relationship with Dart has mostly been as a creator of Flutter and briefly En…

Typescript is great! But doesn't get you away from running in a JS interpreter or JIT, which at least on iOS is very slow. We wrote the first 3 versions of Flutter in JS but eventu…

They talk about it some in the post, but my understanding is they're going to see if the can solve some of the motivating problems (e.g. json serialization) with simpler one-off so…

Yeah. Dart's over-rotation on generated code is a googlism. They have a fancy build setup internally which is very good at generated code and caching it. I know that the build_runn…

[Flutter founder here.] I'm pretty sure we did look at C# (and certainly a whole bunch of other languages). I don't actually recall why we didn't use C# at the time. I remember Go …

Former Eng. Dir for Dart, co-founder of Flutter, here. I'd like to believe this is a good thing for the Dart project, but only time will tell. My hot take here: https://shorebird.d…

Sounds like Apple's old ZeroLink from the aughts?

I post about Flutter & Dart. https://bsky.app/profile/eseidel.bsky.social (I previously founded/led flutter.dev. If you’re using Flutter or Dart, I’d like to make sure you have a g…

“That’s a nice Windows you got there. Would be a shame if something happened to it.”

Flutter has seen a lot of Xamarin refugees. Even the founder of Xamarin himself is a big Flutter fan: https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/1778759403451081159