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And it adds to the already high level of churn in the UI development arena. Dart is a perfectly fine language but is it noticeably better than Kotlin? To use Flutter I have to learn a new framework, a new language, and rewrite pretty much all my app infrastructure that currently runs on the JVM.

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To be fair, you can learn the majority of Dart in a a day or two if you're familiar with JS and Java. It's essentially the best parts of both.

>and rewrite pretty much all my app infrastructure

Though, to be fair, you'd have to do that even if the Flutter was written in Kotlin. Maybe not the back-end parts, but the View would definitely have to be re-written.

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