Dart News & Updates

We’re aflutter to announce the official Dart conference in Los Angeles on January 23-24, 2018. The event will be even bigger and better than last year, with exciting talks about Dart 2.0, Flutter, Dart Dev Compiler, AngularDart, and much more. UPDATE : Please learn more and register here . We’re moving the annual conference from October to January for two reasons: We want our speakers to be available for the other conferences that are happening in the Fall. Each year, September to November is full of events where the team can reach developers unaware of the awesomeness of all things Dart. Likewise, we don’t want you to have to choose between DartConf and other great events. Lots of new things are coming to Dart in the new year. Place: Google Los Angeles Time: January 23-24, 2018 Pre-registration: [CLICK HERE] The event will be live-streamed and sessions will be recorded. Ask questions at dartconf-questions@googlegroups.com.

Videos from last month’s Dart Developer Summit are up on YouTube  and we thought we’d cherry-pick the highlights for you. The summit keynote  is a summary of all the major news and of the direction the team is taking now. It’s where we announced that Dart is the fastest growing language at Google. Teams switching to Dart report up to twice the productivity and development speed of what they had previously. Next, AngularDart 2.0  was launched in a presentation  by Ferhat Buyukkokten and Matan Lurey. They showed how they made the framework’s output 40% smaller and 15% faster in the 4 months since AngularDart got its own dedicated team . They also showed our 60 fps table using setState(), and the new testing framework called NgTestBed. Later in the day, Ted Sander launched AngularDart Components  — the material design widgets Google is using in customer-facing apps like AdWords and AdSense. Hundreds of Google engineers work with these components ever...

We’re here at the Dart Developer Summit  in Munich, Germany. Over 250 developers from more than 50 companies from all over the world just finished watching the keynote. This is a summary of the topics we covered: Dart is the fastest growing programming language at Google, with a 3.5x increase in lines of code since last year. We like to think that this is because of our focus on developer productivity: teams report 25% to 100% increase in speed of development. Google has bet its biggest business on Dart — the web apps built on Dart bring over $70B per year. Google AdSense recently launched a ground-up redesign  of their web app, built with Dart. Earlier this year, we announced  that the next generation of AdWords is built with Dart. There are more exciting Dart products at Google that we’re looking forward to reveal. Outside Google, companies such as Wrike, Workiva, Soundtrap, Blossom, DG Logic, Sonar Design have all been using and enjoying Dart for years. ...

The Dart Developer Summit is only 5 weeks ahead, and we’re excited about its agenda: 17 talks, many demos, 25 speakers, plus a lightning talks session and a panel discussion. Expect the full program soon on the site, but here’s a teaser: Major improvements to the type system Much better interoperability with JavaScript Improved developer workflow AngularDart 2.0 And much more We will share more details as we approach the summit. Because the TypeScript flavor of Angular just released  version 2.0 last week, we think it’s a good opportunity to share more details about AngularDart 2.0. Besides the changes you’d expect, such as faster execution and reduced size (on which we’re already making a lot of progress ), we will also have a better template compiler and some nice surprises for you. The beta releases of AngularDart have been in production use at Google since January, in MLOC-sized apps. This has helped us to see what works well for large apps, and to improve...

Dart developers met in San Francisco for two days in April 2015 to share stories, meet engineers, and learn about how to deploy Dart for the web, server, and mobile. If you missed the event, don't worry. You can now watch all the Dart Developer Summit presentations on YouTube . Check out the playlist to see a wide range of content: case studies, insight into new features and libraries (such as async/await ), a game engine built with Dart , deploying Dart to Internet of Things , deploying Dart on the server , using Dart in Google , and much more. We also saw two new interesting experiments to bring Dart to mobile: the Dart for Mobile Services project and the Sky project . A big thank you to everyone that joined us in person and on the live stream. We hope you enjoy the videos , and we'll see you in the Dartiverse!