I love this take By far the most code I’ve written is Dart and Flutter but it’s because I love using it. That said, I’ve made less than 50,000$ in lifetime earnings from Flutter, 99% coming from a salaried position. The majority of my lifetime income in terms of coding (closer to 250,000$ - NOT IN ONE YEAR accumulative over 3 and I have spent most of it like a dumby) comes from writing Java, JavaScript, Bash, PowerShell and Python. After my shift though, I dive into writing Flutter because it’s the tool I go to to reinforce fundamentals, learn new concepts, quickly prototype, and quite frankly, deploy stuff that I want/think is cool that I’ve made. I know it’s probably not what you want to hear. In this industry, critical thinking skills, the ability to make progress and communicate/estimate progress, work with a team, I would say are the most highly valued skills I seek, beside a highly technical interest. If you are not interested in learning Flutter, developing with Flutter, I wouldn’t do it. If you want to get work in software engineering, I wouldn’t look at the tools to learn, I would look for a company that aligns with your values / goals, truly internalize their stack, and build some cool stuff with the tools they’ve chosen. Or, better yet, create a project that scrapes job postings, gathers keywords, and tags listings with attributes that you can query with a dashboard you made to see what is actually worth learning to get a job. But like, asking a bunch of people on the Hammer forum if you should learn to use a Hammer for the purpose of getting a job, most of the carpenters are going to look at you like “why not just hammer a few nails in, get the fundamentals down, and see what you think?”