# Google Flutter - What could be their reason for choosing Dart (over Kotlin)

**URL:** <https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/google-flutter-what-could-be-their-reason-for-choosing-dart-over-kotlin/21179>\
**Category:** Multiplatform\
**Created:** [March 11, 2021, 11:47pm UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/google-flutter-what-could-be-their-reason-for-choosing-dart-over-kotlin/21179 "2021-03-11T23:47:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![vhodek](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/discuss.kotlinlang.org/vhodek/32/8497_2.png) [@vhodek](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/u/vhodek)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 8:58pm UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/google-flutter-what-could-be-their-reason-for-choosing-dart-over-kotlin/21179/21 "2021-04-12T20:58:02Z")

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Sure, I understand what you mean. But for smaller apps, it’s still a considerable difference.

Of course, it’s not a big deal today, but one of my last mobile projects has size (\< 1 MB) as a requirement due to distribution limitations - distributed via Play Store/App Store, but on places with very poor aggregated connection. The app was small and data was downloaded from a local proxy.

Also, for single-purpose utilities, Flutter may be too heavy.

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**Author:** ![nguyen-sde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/fbc32d/32.png) [@nguyen-sde](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/u/nguyen-sde)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/google-flutter-what-could-be-their-reason-for-choosing-dart-over-kotlin/21179/22 "2022-03-17T17:23:42Z")

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> [@dalewking](#):
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> If I had that ability to do cross-platform UI in KMM like I can in Flutter and never have to touch Swift or XCode, I would never write another line of Flutter.

That’s exactly what I am looking for but I am choosing Flutter because I don’t see the light for that future yet.  
I wish Jetpack Compose uses the same architecture as Flutter: compile to native+js and use Skia for rendering UI on all platforms (android, ios, windows, linux, mac and web).

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**Author:** ![geoffrey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@geoffrey](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/u/geoffrey)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 5:11pm UTC](https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/google-flutter-what-could-be-their-reason-for-choosing-dart-over-kotlin/21179/23 "2024-08-30T17:11:50Z")

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And axing things that stick as well.

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