[jmnicolas]

I took it last year, the woman has a mesmerizing voice! (and the course is great too :D) If you're an experienced software dev it's a bit basic.

I like Flutter a lot, but I'm not a fan of Dart. It's a false friend, it makes you believe it's simple and mostly a copy of your favorite language, but once you start to dig a little deeper it feels like something bolted on, hacky, not designed.

I come from the .net world which is the exact opposite: C# is a superb language but every UI framework MS has ever produced is sub par. Now if I could get Flutter with C# I would be a happy man.

[chgibb]

I am slowly trying to make this happen https://hydro-sdk.io/

[voidmain0001]

Flutnet[1] - either a dream come true, or a nightmare. [1] https://www.flutnet.com/

[cutler]

I don't really get this. Both Flutter and Xamarin are hybrid frameworks. Mixing them up just seems ..... pointless. What's there to be gained?

[jmnicolas]

Wow I never encountered Flutnet before. It's more of a nightmare IMHO, my goal moving to flutter was to avoid Xamarin in the first place!

[vanillax]

Just learn native flutter and dart. If you cant learn a new lang, you shouldn't be developing.

[cweagans]

Huh. I really enjoy Dart and found a lot of it very elegant. What about it did you not like?

[jmnicolas]

Of course it's highly subjective but here are a few examples:

There's too much syntactic sugar for my taste to the point it gets diabetic.

Callable classes really? For example you can write MyClass()();

Underscore to mark a variable or a function private, but you can still use an underscore to declare a variable inside a function so it muddles the comprehension. Are we going to lose some precious milliseconds if we have to write private in front of a variable?

There's also the need to use buildrunner for almost everything since the language wasn't thought out for modern use cases. It works, but this is very inelegant IMHO. When I peak at the generated code I don't feel fluent in Dart quite the opposite.

Then there's the ultra strict linter that won't let me add an empty new line where I want. The resulting code is very compact and is harder to read.

[abelsm]

yes, we've been writing a lot of Dart over the last couple of years and also enjoy it quite a lot. interested in hearing what issues GP faced.