Dart News & Updates

Dart 1.23 is now available. It introduces support for overriding fields in strong mode and a lot of other improvements. Get it now ! Figure 1: Overriding fields in strong mode We have been spending a lot of our time on our unified front-end (explained by Vyacheslav Egorov in this short talk  from the Dart Developer Summit). We're also doing a lot of work to support our critical customers (for example, Flutter gets better Windows support with this release) and solidifying strong mode . Some notable changes in this release: Overriding fields is now supported in strong mode. You don’t need to tag them with @virtual anymore. Strong mode inference error messages are more helpful. Strong mode now prefers the expected type to infer generic types, functions, and methods. The UriData.parse  method now normalizes and validates its input better. Importing dart:io is now allowed in the browser, as a stopgap measure to make it easier to write libraries that share code...

Following Brad Green’s keynote at ng-conf 2017 that seemed to indicate that Typescript is now an official language at Google, there were many questions about the status of Dart at Google. We would like to clarify that both Dart and Typescript are in the same category. They both are  allowed to be used for client side development. They are, however, not in the same category as more established languages like Javascript/Closure and Java — those have both more lines of code and more tooling. Dart has been used for unrestricted client development at Google now for 4+ years. Dart and AngularDart are used by large products such as AdWords, AdSense and Shopping, and by critical internal tools such as Google CRM. In addition, the Flutter  cross-platform mobile app framework uses Dart and is used by multiple teams at Google including Google CRM and Shopping Express. The Google codebase contains many millions of lines of Dart code. Typescript has become allowed for ...