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What the frick is flutter. If I've never heard of it it's probably not very useful :#marseyindignant:

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It lets you write Android apps without having to touch Java and web apps without Javascript, so it's probably a good thing.

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Oh that actually doesn't sound bad I heard Google and expected the worst

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It's pretty bad.

It uses a language no one else uses called Dart. So it's a cross platform framework that gives you no transferable skills like say React with JS might.

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I'm convinced there's a hidden clique making new programming languages to pad their resumes.

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Its history is kind of weird. It was originally made by Google as a JavaScript replacement- like a "we'll do it right this time" language, it got to the point that they even shipped the Dart VM in Chrome at one point IIRC.

However it clearly didn't take off and just kind of languished until being adopted for Flutter and the de facto language for Googles Fuchsia operating system.

Supposedly it's not at risk of getting the Google axe because a lot of key internal stuff is written in it, but still pretty inorganic language vs. Go or Kotlin I feel like.

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One more layer of abstraction some group of frontend "engineers" invented to avoid learning how computers actually work and can pad their resume with so they dont get obsoleted

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