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It's used in Flutter exclusively, and since Flutter is hardly used at all, it's a pretty unknown language, and will probably always remain so.

It doesn't help Dart that Kotlin and Swift have been null safe languages for a decade now.



I wouldn’t dismiss Flutter out of hand. It’s more popular even than React Native!

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/02/21/why-flutter-is-the-mos...


More popular by the metric of...StackOverflow question tags. I'm not sure that I would use that as my preferred metric for language popularity.


Indeed the perfect language/tech stack would be immensely popular and never have any SO questions, as everything would be obvious and easy to figure out without help...


… which is why hairdryers have warnings like “do not use while sleeping”.

I mean…


Not a very meaningful metric.

Take a look at job boards and see how many job postings you find for React compared to Flutter.




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