what’s the dev lang for flutter? is it still java ...

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[evanchooly]

what’s the dev lang for flutter? is it still java or kotlin like android is?

[sindrenm]

You use Dart to make apps in Flutter.

[evanchooly]

Dart?!? ugh. i thought google killed that years ago. 🙂

[sindrenm]

Dart 2 is a complete revamp of the language. It's actually not too bad. simple smile

[evanchooly]

yeah? i’ll have to take another look. it’s been a few years.

[sindrenm]

Kotlin's still nicer, though. 😉

[evanchooly]

well, that goes without saying. 😉

[agrosner]

Dart2 is really nice. not as nice as Kotlin in some ways, but still pretty nice

[agrosner]

Dart just needs data classes, nullability in type system, and primary constructor declarations

[agrosner]

data classes are in the works!!
https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/31253

[ghedeon]

yeah, but why?... I mean, such a waste of resources. I understand, that it was written in Dart before kotlin adoption, but what's the plan now? Any attempts to bring kotlin to flutter? They target cross-platform after all, swift is pretty close to kotlin and convincing iOS devs still won't be easy, but with Dart it's almost impossible.

[agrosner]

Large company. Flutter doesn't need kotlin.

[agrosner]

At dev shops where people do react native this is so much more appealing than those tools

[agrosner]

React native has a host of issues. Native devs could be swayed but probably not many iOS devs

[mutexkid]

I asked the question at the I/O flutter tent whether alternate language bindings for flutter would be available. The answer was that in the near future they will open it up to the open source community to build that support - sort of a non-answer, but it did seem that they indicated that it is something that will be possible