Ask HN: Is Dart/Flutter worth learning, from a practical standpoint?

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Post by numilani » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 1:09 AM UTC

I'm a relatively pragmatic person, perhaps more so than some programmers. If I'm going to learn a new language, it's because there's something I want from it, not usually because I'm simply curious. Dart struck me as a particularly nice language - it's statically typed which plays to my personal preferences and experience (background in C# mostly), it compiles both to JS for personal game-and-graphics-related projects, and to native x64 for practical work-related projects, and it has Flutter as a companion framework for UI.

That said, it seems like I rarely hear of projects being written in Dart, and the apparent lack of community-written packages concerns me. The only articles I find about it only speak its praises, or give criticisms that are too out-of-date to be valuable. Does anyone have thoughts to share on why I shouldn't learn Dart, or is it actually as nice as the articles I'm finding make it sound?

Re: Ask HN: Is Dart/Flutter worth learning, from a practical standpoint?

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Post by endofreach » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 1:16 AM UTC

If i recall correctly, dart will be important for fuchsia. The whole UI is flutter. Dart might be getting more relevant for the core, it might not. i think this will be an interesting opportunity for a „responsive“ OS. I haven‘t had time to dive into it, but i for sure think dart will be my entry point. There will be more sophisticated replies here obviously, just wanted to leave this here.

Next lang for me will be dart.

Re: Ask HN: Is Dart/Flutter worth learning, from a practical standpoint?

#3

Post by numilani » Thu, Dec 16, 2021, 1:55 AM UTC

endofreach wrote: post #2

If i recall correctly, dart will be important for fuchsia. The whole UI is flutter. Dart might be getting more relevant for the core, it might not. i think this will be an interesting opportunity for a „responsive“ OS. I haven‘t had time to dive into it, but i for sure think dart will be my entry point. There will be more sophisticated replies here obviously, just wanted to leave this here. Next lang for me will be d…

Wow, I didn't even realize project fuchsia was still a thing until you reminded me of it. I remember hearing about it for a while and then...nothing. Just assumed Google had dropped the project silently until I did a search for it just now.