Christoph Menzel

Dart - a language believed dead, experiences a new bloom

How did a language once believed dead become a top choice for building high-performance, multi-platform apps? Discover the features that make Dart so productive.

Dart - a language believed dead, experiences a new bloom
#1about 2 minutes

The history and resurgence of the Dart language

Dart was created by Google to replace JavaScript but found new life as the language behind the Flutter framework.

#2about 2 minutes

Dart's philosophy for productive multi-platform development

The language is designed to be approachable, portable, and productive for developers building high-quality apps on any platform.

#3about 2 minutes

Understanding Dart's JIT and AOT compilation model

Dart uses Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation for fast development cycles and Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compilation for high-performance production builds.

#4about 7 minutes

A tour of Dart's modern language features

This code demo covers key features like null safety, type inference, factory constructors, extension methods, cascades, and enhanced enums.

#5about 2 minutes

Using mixins for composition over inheritance

Mixins provide a way to reuse a class's code in multiple class hierarchies without using traditional inheritance.

#6about 2 minutes

Destructuring and matching JSON with patterns

Pattern matching simplifies working with complex data structures like JSON by allowing for easy destructuring and validation.

#7about 4 minutes

Concurrency with async-await and isolates

Dart handles concurrency using async-await for non-blocking operations and isolates for true parallelism without shared memory.

#8about 2 minutes

Interoperability and the pub.dev package ecosystem

Dart can easily interoperate with native code from C, Java, Kotlin, and JavaScript, supported by a rich ecosystem on pub.dev.

#9about 3 minutes

A look at Dart's developer tools and hot reload

The built-in developer tools provide profiling, debugging, and a powerful hot reload feature that enables instant code changes.

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