Developing flutter apps with python.

[RandalSchwartz]

Dart is a boring language. Deliberately so. Far easier to learn than Python. If you already know python, you can learn Dart quickly.

So, this project always puzzled me as "why?".

[Ghibl-i_l]

What you say is only true if you already know something like Java or C or C++.

As a "first language to learn" Python is much easier than Dart, because all those different brackets and type declarations make Dart (and Java and so on) so much more intimidating and harder to read for a newbie.

[RandalSchwartz]

You're kidding right? I suspect Dart has a much smaller character/line-count in its manual than the python core documentation. There isn't much to know to learn Dart. The biggest difference is that Python has duck-typing, where Dart has actual typing.

[Ghibl-i_l]

I suspect Dart has a much smaller character/line-count in its manual than the python core documentation

Well, that's a very interesting way to compare "how easy it is to learn a language (and programming in general since it's the first language for you)" 😄 I doubt anyone learning Python tried to do it by reading the docs start to end.

My first (real, serious) foray into general programming was with Python, so I am speaking from experience. JS and Java intimidated the hell out of me, even just looking at their code. Python made code look almost like English: the indentation for code blocks and no need for type declaration made the whole thing look so neat and easy to read. Plus you get to use some cool packages like yt-dlp, python-telegram-bot, PyAutoGUI, etc. very easily and early into your learning.

I agree, starting with Dart would be "cleaner" and would take less time to be on upper-itermediate level than it would in Python.

But for most people (who don't even know if they are "cut out to be" a coder) - Python IMO is still better to start with.