New Dart Editor Release Brings map() Back

Dart Editor has a new build and several of the recent breaking changes have been incorporated (including the popularly requested switch from mappedBy() to map()). Eric Clayberg fills us in on the details:

A new Dart Editor build is available at www.dartlang.org/editor. Changes include:

• Auto completion for imports (dart:, package: and relative).
• Cleanups for:
• Date -> DateTime,
• new Date.fromString -> DateTime.parse,
• and new Uri.fromString -> Uri.parse
• Several and various changes to the context menu and the Navigate top-level menu.
• The standalone VM can now be used to generate snapshots:
• dart --generate-script-snapshot=foo.dart.snapshot foo.dart, and
• dart --use-script-snapshot=foo.dart.snapshot foo.dart
• Fixed an issue with changing perspectives in the plugins distribution.
• Files in packages directories are now opened read-only.
• Bug fixes and UX cleanup.

Breaking Change List:

• Deprecated Element.elements has been removed- it is now Element.children.
• Deprecated Element.innerHTML has been removed- it is now Element.innerHtml.
• Removed Sink interface and moved CollectionSink to dart:async.
• dart2js has a new option to control which libraries are available. By default, the compiler selects the “Client” category for browser development. However, if you’re using dart2js to generate minified Dart code for a server application, you need to use the option “--categories=Server”. This change happened in 0.3.2.0, but we failed to recognize it would impact the dart->dart use case and didn’t document this earlier.
• Date has been renamed to DateTime.
• new DateTime.fromString(str) (constructor) has been renamed to DateTime.parse(str) (static method).
• Iterable.mappedBy -> Iterable.map
• List.{mappedBy|skip|take} returns an Iterable (and not a List).
• Stream.mappedBy -> Stream.map
• Removed List.filled constructor.
• Deprecated Strings.join() and Strings.concatAll().
• Strings class is going away
• dart:html HttpRequest.get/getWithCredentials 

And as always, view the changelog for the full list of changes, and to get started with the Editor see our tutorial.

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