<story><title>Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron</title><url>https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-on-desktop-a-real-competitor-to-electron-4f049ea6b061</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thrownaway954</author><text>The road block for adoption will be Dart. Why they didn&amp;#x27;t just choose Typescript or go with native javascript is beyond me. No one uses Dart. It was probably the poorest design decision they could make.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dragonfly02</author><text>Dart 2 is a very solid language. It&amp;#x27;s primarily an OO language but does have some functional elements in it. It&amp;#x27;s very similar to Java and C# and most dart developers think it&amp;#x27;s a better version of Java and C#. It has more features like stream, asynchronous and mixins built into the language. It&amp;#x27;s in fact a full stack language as you can write server side code in dart as well.
I think Google&amp;#x27;s long-term goal is to make dart&amp;#x2F;flutter compatible with mobile (iOS and Android), web, desktop (macOS, Linux, Windows). It will be truly write once and run everywhere.</text></comment>
<story><title>Flutter on desktop, a real competitor to Electron</title><url>https://medium.com/flutter-community/flutter-on-desktop-a-real-competitor-to-electron-4f049ea6b061</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>thrownaway954</author><text>The road block for adoption will be Dart. Why they didn&amp;#x27;t just choose Typescript or go with native javascript is beyond me. No one uses Dart. It was probably the poorest design decision they could make.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skybrian</author><text>Because then the Flutter team couldn&amp;#x27;t ask the language team to make extensive changes to the language when nobody had even heard of the Flutter team yet. Popular languages are popular because they already have a killer app.&lt;p&gt;You might as well ask why Brendan Eich invented JavaScript.</text></comment>