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Discussion on: Flutter, Ionic, React Native or Xamarin? What you use and why?

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Sethu Senthil

I would love to use Flutter but the problem is its base of the language dart. It's great if you like/ know Java but I'm a JS guy, why Google I thought your a JS fan like me man.

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Chandu J S

I'm also a JavaScript developer. Trust me. Dart is really easy.

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Sethu Senthil

Update: You are right! I'm somewhat into flutter and I can say its true

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Jermaine

the problem is its base of the language dart. It's great if you like/ know Java but I'm a JS guy

Dart is also great if you like/know JavaScript. The syntax is familiar, and you can be productive in little time. I'm also another JavaScript developer who has come to appreciate Dart's offering. However, I am curious about your concerns–perhaps you could share a bit more in this discussion.

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Günter Zöchbauer

The Flutter team didn't chose Dart because it just likes Dart.
There are concrete reasons why Dart is a great fit for Flutter
hackernoon.com/why-flutter-uses-da...

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Sethu Senthil

This is all great, infact I am convinced to learn dart instead of ionic but is there a way to incorporate soket.io are some like that (packages)?

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Günter Zöchbauer

Haven't tried yet.
Google found github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/...