Firstly, people simply don't apply for jobs that use languages they don't know.
I did in my last job change - and 80% of the office here didn't know the stack/language when they first came in.
Secondly, if someone has to learn the language when they join that puts a lag on how quickly they can be useful.
You could learn enough dart to be useful in a day if you are a C#/Java dev with JS experience - enough to go through the codebase - and thats something that takes time no matter what the language - dart isn't that exotic.
Flutter has a higher learning curve but that should also be on the order of week or two depending on how much you know about frontend. React native is the same deal.
And lastly, companies are (usually) very reluctant to let someone spend the first few months getting up to speed if a technology choice means they can recruit people who'll immediately be effective.
Meh - when they chose stuff like Dart they know hiring pool is limited and usually word the job posting like that - ie. they expect you to be able to pick it up on the go.
I mean your whole argument is nonsense because things like this happen all the time - my current gig I started as a .NET dev with some python/django experience - I'm working on ruby on Rails stack - never touched that before in my life. Took me like 1 day of reading up to be able to go through the codebase - a few weeks and code reviews and I'm pretty much in tune with how they write RoR.
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I did in my last job change - and 80% of the office here didn't know the stack/language when they first came in.
You could learn enough dart to be useful in a day if you are a C#/Java dev with JS experience - enough to go through the codebase - and thats something that takes time no matter what the language - dart isn't that exotic.
Flutter has a higher learning curve but that should also be on the order of week or two depending on how much you know about frontend. React native is the same deal.
Meh - when they chose stuff like Dart they know hiring pool is limited and usually word the job posting like that - ie. they expect you to be able to pick it up on the go.
I mean your whole argument is nonsense because things like this happen all the time - my current gig I started as a .NET dev with some python/django experience - I'm working on ruby on Rails stack - never touched that before in my life. Took me like 1 day of reading up to be able to go through the codebase - a few weeks and code reviews and I'm pretty much in tune with how they write RoR.