[colinramsay]

I've been doing some work with Flutter on Linux and I've been really impressed. I like Dart as a language, the VSCode support is superb, and Flutter seems well thought out. The two UI packages mentioned in this post look great too.

[mmargerum]

I just can't learn yet another language. There's nothing even particularly novel in dart. Why couldn't they just use an existing language?

[gnabgib]

Dart (2011), TypeScript (2012) and CoffeeScript (2009) and arguably Haxe (2005) all competed in the same space. Google made a optics mistake embedding Dart into Chrome - people feared antitrust, but it is a significantly better language to use than JavaScript.. it's disappointing how that played out. Usability wise, Dart is similar to TypeScript, in many ways better (real type safety, null safety, not being hamstrung by down compiling to JS). Dart feels closer to C# in syntax, style and language features.. TypeScript is also trying to travel that way, but syntax is different, and it's still hamstrung by JS.

[csells]

Dart as a platform provided the unique ability to target both JIT at development-time to enable sub-second hot reload and AOT for release apps, providing native performance when it comes to scrolling, animation, etc.

[rbanffy]

I noticed there doesn't seem to be a `gtk_ui` module. I was saddened that they lumped me together with the Windows crowd.

[TheMatten]

There's https://pub.dev/packages/gtk - has limited set of widgets ATM, but may be a good start.