I think that Cloudflare workers are a great idea, and could be awesome for some projects. I'm not sure there's a self-hosted option as a migration strategy though... Short of an open platform to self-host at least for development, it just feels like the ultimate lock-in strategy.
I find part of the argument deeply flawed... In particular:
> Dart is not a widespread language compared to ... Kotlin, Swift
The main reason Kotlin and Swift are widespread is because they are platform languages themselves. Part of considering a cross-platform language is expressly to avoid/reduce the tether of platform languages.
While it seems that I have to remove several Flutter articles a week, I can see the appeal. I also see the appeal for React Native as well as the work on Xamarin Forms, and the MAUI support coming in .Net 6 (though lack of Linux targets in the near term is disappointing there).
Curious if WebGPU API works without a real GPU, like in container environments... will probably play around with this a little.
Import maps in the box is nice to see as well, I think once the majority of browsers has support, that we'll probably start to see more projects move away from build tooling, which I'm not sure is better or worse. I know that it may be better than the bundle bloat that many projects see currently.
Deno usually adds some interesting features in each minor release. Not sure why there was a downvote on this.
If you *REALLY* don't like ternary operators... function ite(condition, thenValue, elseValue) { if (condition) return thenValue; return elseValue; }