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Flutter 2020 Stats: Over 2 million developers have used Flutter (500k use monthly) with average salary of $72,323 (with previous experience of 67% Android, 45% Web Development and 30% iOS).

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The top 10 most loved programming languages this year are Rust, TypeScript, Python, Kotlin, Go, Julia, Dart, C#, Swift, JavaScript and SQL.

Meanwhile, the top 10 most dreaded programming languages are VBA, Objective-C, Perl, Assembly, C, PHP, Ruby, C++, Java and R.

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Announcing version 2.8 of the Dart SDK. The Dart platform comes with built-in support for package management via pub client tool (now faster) and https://t.co/wuCXi9J2EF package repository (10k+ packages). Dart 2.8 also brings some small changes to the language and libraries.

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CodePen now supports Flutter and the Dart programming language. CodePen has been a fan for years and now has made them first-class members of the CodePen community. CodePen’s Flutter editor is built on top of the same backend service, dart-services, that currently powers DartPad.

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As of the 4th quarter of 2019 the number of apps available in the Google Play Store is 2.7 million and 1.84 million in Apple's App Store. So, startups are turning to Flutter/Dart to gain an edge on getting started with their cross-platform apps.
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The Dart language is evolving quickly; this year alone we've seen: Improved const, value inference, AOT performance gains, extensions methods, set literals, collection if, spread operators, compile-time type checks, verified publishers on https://t.co/wuCXi9J2EF and much more.

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Dart is single threaded, just like JavaScript. Threads in Dart are called isolates, which communicate by passing messages over channels and do not share memory, which avoids the need for most locks. This is similar to the way actors work in Erlang or web workers in JavaScript.

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There's no denying that 2019 has been an eventful year for Flutter and Dart enthusiasts. Hopefully, you will get a chance to try out some of the advancements in Flutter and Dart, whether you're building a mobile app for Android and iOS, or creating a web app or even native app.

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At the Dart Developer Summit in 2015, Flutter (codename "Sky") was first unveiled, with the promise of rendering consistently at 120 fps and more. Now Dart + Flutter could be an integral part of Google's Fuchsia with Dart running on billions of IoT devices in the coming years.

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Dart can be efficiently compiled AOT (Ahead of Time) or JIT (Just in Time) and interpreted or transpiled into other languages as well. Dart compilation and execution is quite fast and unusually flexible. Designers can sit with developers for an extremely efficient workflows.

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Current state of Flutter:
iOS & Android = < production ready >
Web = < beta >
Desktop = < alpha >

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Flutter has nearly caught up to React Native in GitHub stars at 80.5k (Flutter) vs. 83K (React Native), despite that Flutter was released 2 years after React Native and at the current trajectory, Flutter will surely overtake React Native for cross-platform mobile apps in 2020.

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Web support for Flutter is now in Beta, with the Flutter 1.12 release it moves on from a technical preview to beta. With its power Dart compiler for the web and a Flutter architecture designed with portability in mind. Look for the new platform tagging on https://t.co/wuCXi9J2EF.

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Welcome Dart 2.7 which adds support for extension methods, a new package called characters, non-nullable types and more. Available today as a SDK download from https://t.co/nXiQMCtajk and also built into today's Flutter 1.12 release.

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Recent GitHub Octoverse report lists Google's Dart language as the #1 fastest growing language, ranked by number of contributors. It's been a busy year for the Dart client-optimized language with at least six releases that have dozens of new features.

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A major upgrade to the online editor https://t.co/hfEVTqnanl that can run Dart programs directly in your browser, now with support for the popular Flutter UI toolkit. You can also embed DartPad into a web pages and share your snippets.

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The newly released Dart 2.6 comes with dart2native that can compile Dart to self-contained native executables, using a tool that does AOT (ahead-of-time) compiles from Dart code to native x64 machines code for uses such as command line tools on macOS, Windows or Linux using Dart

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Flutter has risen from its 2018 incubator status and now Google has fledged Flutter as a cross-platform framework for nearly every screen. i.e. mobile apps, websites, desktop apps and more. Even moving towards embedded devices via Google's Nest products and a place in Chrome OS.

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Since its 1.0 release in December 2018, flutter/flutter has become one of GitHub's most popular open-source projects (by contributor count) and Dart, the language used to write Flutter apps, has a correlated increase. Dart will be one of the top cross-platform languages in 2020.

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