Dart programming language

“porting from dart to rust reduced memory from around 450MB to about 30MB at about 50% of the CPU”

“The recent versions of Dart are a lovely language to work with.”

“Dart 3.0+ in general is a much nicer language than before”

“The language is unified and doesn't feel as ducked tape as Javascript is.”

“Dart's syntax style doesn't match mine. As much as I tried to enjoy it, after a while I just couldn't look at it anymore.”

“it benefits from AOT and can actually be faster than a binary after it gets hot”

“Yeah I have no idea how someone who has used all these languages can come up with a conclusion like Dart is “uglier”.”

“is very nice to write in - thanks to both the language itself and the toolchain built around it.”

“It's richer than JS/TS with stronger type safety, and seems purpose-built for UI.”

“keeps these limping along with weak support and no clear vision”

“Dart/Scala/Kotlin have all really solved this with language features”

“Would'n it be much better to compile Dart to WASM (the Dart SDK even supports "dart compile wasm")?”

“Dart is also complete shit: Speed of javascript with verbosity of Java”

“Google tried fixing some of this with Dart but chickened out at the last second.”

“It failed at its initial goal and hasn’t really found a footing outside of Flutter.”

“Dart fits the bill here, and covers a weakness many programming languages have which is user facing GUIs.”

“it has an extremely strong and modern cli tool, which is a one stop shop for all your formatting, linking, and project building needs”

“That sanity check has saved my ass a couple of times when weird bugs crept in”

“Dart however is itself a lovely language and extremely easy to pick up if you have any knowledge in programming.”

“Dart is really easy to pick up, it's a beautiful language imho.”

“it was the only language that could have small aot binaries”

“That it is also the only real use case for Dart also doesn’t help matters.”

“The simple reality is it wasn't very good, so no one was rushing to use it”

“Dart was awful, lost to Javascript because no one rated it highly enough to justify moving off Javascript”

“Dart is hands down the best modern language out there for app development right now”

“Dart is getting new features pretty fast, they really started focusing on the DX more after Dart 2”

“has pub.dev and a CLI that makes it extremely easy to add packages”

“It's aged like the recent languages but feels clunkier like a language that's much much older.”

“it's really modern in comparison (same generation as Kotlin swift and typescript)”

“It has a lot of modern features, nullable types, pattern matching, sum types, and factory constructors”

“I was surprised how pleasant Dart was compared to JavaScript and TypeScript”

“It’s more performant than Python (and I assume Ruby too), and nicer to work with than other statically typed languages”

“It is simple, has great tooling, and compiles to native code.”

“Darts strengths is JIT/AOT compilation, hot reload, concurrency, null safety to deliver performant UIs across platforms”

“My personal favorite language is probably Dart, but it's basically useless outside of Flutter”

“Generally, Dart's great, I don't notice any difference between iOS / Android standard UI platforms.”

“I know, it's underrated but it is what it is. I still continue using it.”

“Dart looks ok, but looking at the Dart equivalents of JS examples like {foo: 1}, I'd rather use JS”

“Dart’s type system is sound, language-supported Isolates (wow feature), hot reload at runtime (wow feature)”

“I write a bunch of Dart which I compile to Wasm and get proper run time type safety in the browser and it works great.”