Flow is a platform for safe, easy and productive programming of complex, multi-platform apps with a modern user interface. The flow platform includes
Flow has production quality targets for HTML, iOS, Android, Windows, Mac & Linux.
Flow was started in 2010. This predates the ‘flow’ typechecker from Facebook. Thus, we elect to keep the name, since it came first, is a full platform and the risk of confusion seems small. However, should the need arise, then flow9 can also be used to refer to this language.
April 26, 2019
We in Area9 just released flow on GitHub as open source. Flow is a complete platform for writing apps in a functional programming language that can run everywhere.
Every day, a new programming language is announced. Why do we need one more?