[dodobirdlord]

> Might even just mirror an equal dismissal regarding server side Dart.

That'd be my guess. Given the nature of Flutter and its co-development with Dart it's not surprising that Fuchsia prioritizes it. After all, you need to implement the UI in something. Meanwhile I have literally never heard of a UI implemented in Go, and outside of the UI I can see why they don't want to use garbage collected languages in their OS.

[masklinn]

> I have literally never heard of a UI implemented in Go

I expect it has the same issue as UI in Rust: UI is one of the domain where OO inheritance is most convenient and most deeply embedded. So langages which don’t do inheritance are hard sells.

Newer “declarative” UI frameworks less so but they’re probably not mature enough conceptually that you’d want to bet your OS’s core UI system on them, right now they’d be used as an overlay on the core stateful UI system (see bodil’s vgtk for example).

[anthonybullard]

Flutter is a declarative UI framework in Dart, and is the core system UI for Fuchsia. Shallow inheritance is used extensively there

[pjmlp]

There are a couple of them, including some books, but yeah there are better alternatives out there.