Flutter 2.8 focuses on improving app startup time, reducing memory footprint, and making it easier for developers to profile performance issues. Along with it, Google has announced a new Dart version, Dart 2.15, improving worker isolates, introducing constructor tear-off, and extending enums.
To reduce app startup latency, Flutter 2.8 addresses a few shortcomings in the Dart VM garbage collector, reduces serialization while creating platform views, and enables concurrent initialization of the font manager. These changes may bring a significant performance improvements especially on low-end devices, says the Flutter team.
