Dart News & Updates

Posted by Seth Ladd "How do I keep up with all the news and info about Dart?" was a great question posted to our mailing list . This post summarizes how you, the busy developer, can keep up with Dart. Subscribe to news.dartlang.org for postings on upcoming language changes, announcements, and news. Circle +Dart on Google+ for news and community projects. Follow #dartlang on Twitter and #dartlang on G+ to get an overview of all Dart activity. Ask and answer questions about Dart on Stack Overflow . Community news is posted to blog.dartwatch.com . Blog posts about Dart are collected at dartosphere.org . Star issues at dartbug.com to get email updates. Try searching for M1 milestone issues. Watch the Dartisans show (video and podcast) for interviews and discussions. If you like discussing language design, join the Dart discussion mailing list . Hope that helps!

Posted by Seth Ladd In this episode of Dartisans, JJ Behrens talks with Dart engineers Todd Turnidge and Johnni Winther about their work on mirrors (the reflection API), isolates, and dart2js. Don't forget to watch the rest of the Dartisans episodes or subscribe to the podcast.

Posted by Konstantin Scheglov The Dart Editor now supports "Quick Assists", which are small refactorings, allowing you to perform short transformations of source code. These quick fixes can save you several tedious manual operations. For example, the Quick Assist "Split && Condition" is used when you find out that you need to do something just on the first part of && condition and you need to move second part of condition into separate "if" statement. Try a Quick Assist by using the Ctrl/Cmd+1 hotkey. Please let us know what other Quick Assists and refactorings you'd like to see appear in the Dart Editor by filing feature requests at http://dartbug.com/new .

Posted by Seth Ladd We've compiled a list of some of the language features that are targeted for the M1 release of Dart. We hope this helps you track the features you are interested in. This list is a good way to associate a specific language change to its implementation in the Dart VM, Dart2js, and the Analyzer. Be sure to star the bugs important to you, and you'll get notifications when the issues are closed. As always, we really appreciate feedback on the Dart mailing list and Stack Overflow . (This isn't a complete list, and of course things can change in the future.) Feature Lang issue# dart2js issue# VM issue# Analyzer issue# support const modifier for variables 3549 3552 Done @9992 Done @8670 type included in this.x N/A external functions 3570 Done @10144 allow non-constant initializers for fields 1038 3849 3848 Done @10233 stop treating final like const lazy static init 3557 3559 3558 3476 operator syntax 3765 3766 3767 3768 ...