1 year ago

Google laid out an ambitious roadmap for its Dart framework, Flutter — including plans to support WebAssembly (Wasm) — at the Flutter Forward conference in Nairobi, Kenya. Among the planned upgrades to Flutter are the ability to compile to WebAssembly, improved graphic performance, interoperability between JavaScript and Dart, and the ability to add Flutter components into web applications.

Here’s a look at the areas in which Flutter hopes to innovate over the coming year: Integrating Flutter with the Web, JavaScript, Wasm

WebAssembly did not initially support https://thenewstack.io/google-cloud-engineer-kathryn-s-mckinley-on-leadership-mentoring-garbage-collection-and-rust/ like Dart, so Google worked with the https://thenewstack.io/what-makes-wasm-different/ bodies and Chrome team to enable support for such languages, Sneath said.

“We have started publishing alpha-quality builds of Dart 3, along with matching Flutter builds, enabling developers to test packages and apps.”