[TobyTheDog123]

You seem to be suggesting that instead of installing a piece of software and running two commands is somehow inferior to writing untyped, unscalable javascript, hard refreshing the page each time to see your changes, loaded in yourself with script tags. This is the oddest argument of all (I can use that word too)

There is a reason people made these countless frameworks and solutions, but the benefit Flutter provides is it's an out-of-the-box fix, and yeah, installing some software and running two commands is an out-of-the-box fix.

In addition, the entirety of your argument just flat-out ignores the cross-platform aspect of it, targeting only the browser instead of mobile and desktop platforms as well.

> You have now transitioned from saying that you don't have to spend as much time to set up a development environment to saying that it is pretty much free, which is even odder still.

I truly don't understand this odd exercise in linguistic gymnastics, as these are both simultaneously and entirely true. You can resolve this yourself.

And yes, it's still (basically) free.

[cxr]

> You seem to be suggesting that instead of installing a piece of software and running two commands is somehow inferior to writing untyped, unscalable javascript, hard refreshing the page each time to see your changes, loaded in yourself with script tags.

Nope.

> This is the oddest argument of all (I can use that word too)

Oh, boy. That sounds bad. I guess it's a good thing that's an argument I'm not making it, then! (Also: I didn't use that word, FYI.)