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Dart: The Language behind Flutter and Fuchsia OS.

Jay Tillu😎 on June 30, 2019

Flutter 1.0 is officially announced on Dec 04, 2018. After that, the demand of dart programmers is gaining popularity now. Because entire flutter a...
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José Muñoz

Interesting for sure, but I would take Dart with scepticism, Google's reputation taints the project and the fact that no consumer-grade devices are running fuschia is also a factor in the Language's longevity.

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Stargator • Edited

Google has said Fuchsia is used to test out OS features before applying them to Android. But that could be a cover.

Right now, Fuchsia isn't being marketed for use in any products, so I can't see Fuchsia not being marketed as a consumer product as a Con when it doesn't look like that is what Google wants to do it.

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Krishnanand • Edited

Have you ever felt there is something weird about Fuschia,
First of all, it was sort of a secret project until they released the development website and second when we look at the timeline ,
First introduction of dart then the introduction of flutter then the announcement of Fuschia everything was planned af. Google has big plans with Fuschia thank god it is opensource.

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Jay Tillu😎

yaa you are right

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@Krishnanand I don't think this was always in Google's plan. But Dart has evolved to be more type sound and a better fit for enterprise projects like Google Ads which uses AngularDart.

And now it is the underlying language for Flutter, so it makes sense for them to push what can be done with it.

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daanchuk

Great write up!