Dart 3 introduces sound null safety, major new language features, and a Wasm preview, while Flutter 3.10 fleshes out the Material 3 widget toolkit and support for macOS and iOS targets.

Flutter is powered by Dart, a language optimized for fast apps on any platform. Dart looks rather like Java, Kotlin, Swift, and TypeScript (see Figure 4 for a comparison).

Google's Dart programming language and Flutter, for building UIs for iOS and Android apps, are getting major traction with developers on GitHub.

Kotlin competes with Java to be a top programming language for mobile applications on Android. The top 3 stay steady.

Programming languages: Java developers flock to Kotlin and ditch Oracle JDK for OpenJDK New survey reveals the most popular tools used by Java developers.

It’s no surprise that Google’s hope is that over time, all Android developers will switch over to Kotlin. “There is still quite a bit of Java still happening on Android,” Ward said. “We ...

Non-game Android apps are normally written in Java, but a group inside Google is experimenting with a whole new way of writing Android apps using Dart, Google's in-house Web development language ...

Google's open source, cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit, which started with a mobile focus, boosted its Web development tooling and has embraced Swift for native iOS projects and Kotlin for Android.

Venkat Subramaniam is a sought-after keynote speaker not only because of his flair for language, but also because of his reasoned perspective on fast-changing programming trends.

Google's open source, cross-platform Flutter UI toolkit, which started with a mobile focus, boosted its Web development tooling and has embraced Swift for native iOS projects and Kotlin for Android.