Steps to reproduce

The current implementation of Column and Row (and really every widget that requires a list of widgets) requires that the children-parameter is a type of List. However, List is not an abstraction and is acutally mutable, which can cause issues if the user decides to add or remove items from the list without calling setState. This requirement also causes inconvenient behaviour when mapping a list of objects to widget, where it's suddenly required to call toList().

Expected results

Column(
      children: messages.map((message) => ChatBubble(chatMessage: message)),
    );

Actual results

Column(
      children: messages.map((message) => ChatBubble(chatMessage: message)).toList(),
    );

Code sample

Column(
      children: messages.map((message) => ChatBubble(chatMessage: message)).toList(),
    );

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