[preommr]

> For one thing, it’s tied to a custom language.

Are you talking about Dart?

If so, that's absolutely savage, lmao. To not only call it a "custom" language but not even name it. The amount of disrespect - and the worst thing is I don't even think it was intended. Even if this is one person, I think this speaks volumes about how much of a joke the language is.

It's just so sad. And to think that the team behind flutter purposefully chose it after considering a bunch of other languages.

[literallycancer]

Well they did add the compiler half way through.

You can write idiomatic Dart code that won't run because Flutter asserts crash it at runtime. And you fix it by writing code that the Dart compiler complains about but lets you run and it works (even though it shouldn't). Is there another compiled language where this is the norm?

What's the point of dealing with a half baked ecosystem when there are much better languages available?

[fctorial]

I don't think he meant it that way. He's probably trying to say that depending on a "custom language" is a bad thing in itself.

I personally don't feel that dart is tied in any way to flutter. It was originally meant to be compiled to js, and that shows in vm architecture, but that doesn't look like a con.