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Dart Team's Weekly Digest

Posted by Seth Ladd

A quick update on what happened in Dart-land in the past week (Week of Feb. 6). 
  • In terms of the Dart language specification: 1) Put out proposal for simplifying getters, closurization operator, 2) Many discussions over library/import improvements, 3) Very near decision on == and 4) Ongoing work on 0.08 spec draft.
  • In the Dart VM we implemented library name interpolation (very experimental) and C API for ByteArray and finalization of external types.
  • For the Dart to JavaScript Compiler we had lots of progress on the SSA-based optimizing compiler that now has support for closures, exception handling and complex calling conventions. Moreover, we fixed a few of the high priority reported bugs for frog.
  • As for the Dart UI libraries, we starting to use same infrastructure to generate dart:dom and dart:html (r4021) and libraries are continuing to be restructured to more closely match the SDK. Change r4153 allows isolates to be spawned from closure.
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