Dart News & Updates

Better performance, more features, and improved tools mark the 1.1 release of Dart. Just two months after the 1.0 release , this new release delivers a set of compatible updates that makes applications easier to develop and faster for end users. Dart’s Javascript output continues to shine. Performance on the Richards benchmark is 25% better than the first release, making runtime comparable to the original JavaScript. Performance of the newest benchmark, FluidMotion, has doubled since November. Dart2js now generates Javascript that performs as well as, if not better than, the idiomatic Javascript equivalent. While there’s a lot of focus on Dart for browser applications, there is also growing interest in Dart for server solutions. This release provides a number of enhancements for server-side Dart, including support for large files, file copying, process signal handlers, and terminal information. New in this release is support for UDP, which, for example, allows developers to write more...

The Dart team published new docs and samples showing how to write command-line and server-side apps with Dart. The Dart VM's dart:io library provides access to files, directories, sockets, web sockets, SSL, TCP, UDP, HTTP, and more. Community packages on pub.dartlang.org provide higher-level frameworks and libraries. The Command-Line Apps for Dart Programmer's Guide starts to collect resources for the new server-side and command-line Dart app developers. You'll find links to samples, API docs, community projects, tutorials, and more. The new Command-Line Apps in Dart tutorial teaches you how to build command-line apps. Learn how to use stdin/stdout, command-line arguments, files and directories, and more. For an in-depth look at how a Dart-based HTTP and Web sockets server is written, check out Walkthrough: Dartiverse Search . This chapter from Dart Up & Running shows how Dart is used for both the client and the server. Bonus: learn how you can connect to G...