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by dangjc 2881 days ago
I wonder if Dart will supersede Kotlin now that Flutter is getting attention on mobile.
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pjmlp 2881 days ago
Flutter is getting some attention, however no one outside the respective teams, knows actually where Google is taking Flutter and Fuchsia.

And lets not forget Android also means Auto, Wear, Things and ChromeOS integration.

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buremba 2881 days ago
Dart is a successor to Javascript, not Kotlin.
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dangjc 2880 days ago
Dart is being positioned as a cross compiling, Android and iOS (but not web) development language with the Flutter platform. It very much seems like a replacement for Kotlin's usage on Android, but only if you are also switching to this UI framework.

https://medium.com/dartlang/announcing-dart-2-80ba01f43b6

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pjmlp 2880 days ago
It has a very long road to travel regarding OS APIs and the Android team evaded the question at Google IO about what was their opinion regarding Flutter.

Additionally, according to the Chrome team, also at IO, the way to do iOS and Android development is via PWAs, not Flutter.

This is just Google playing with their teams.

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foobarbazetc 2881 days ago
Eh... Kotlin sucks as a language but lets you access high quality Java libraries.
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