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The Dart SDK, including the VM, JS and Wasm compilers, analysis, core libraries, and more.
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What it is
The Dart SDK, including the VM, JS and Wasm compilers, analysis, core libraries, and more.
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> Does it have good editor integration for autocompletion and linting? Yes, we have full IDE support in IntelliJ with auto-complete, go to definition, find references, and all…
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HN mentions by year67 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2015-05-16 21:36:05 UTC to 2026-09-24 18:43:01 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 0 | 14 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
From the project README
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Read the project’s introduction
Dart
An approachable, portable, and productive language for high-quality apps on any platform
Dart is:
Approachable:
Develop with a strongly typed programming language that is consistent,
concise, and offers modern language features like null safety and patterns.
Portable:
Compile to ARM, x64, or RISC-V machine code for mobile, desktop, and backend.
Compile to JavaScript or WebAssembly for the web.
Productive:
Make changes iteratively: use hot reload to see the result instantly in your running app.
Diagnose app issues using DevTools.
Dart's flexible compiler technology lets you run Dart code in different ways,
depending on your target platform and goals:
Dart Native: For programs targeting devices (mobile, desktop, server, and more),
Dart Native includes both a Dart VM with JIT (just-in-time) compilation and an
AOT (ahead-of-time) compiler for producing machine code.
Dart Web: For programs targeting the web, Dart Web includes both a development time
compiler (dartdevc) and a production time compiler (dart2js).
License & patents
Dart is free and open source.
See LICENSE and PATENT_GRANT.
Using Dart
Visit dart.dev to learn more about the
language, tools, and to find
codelabs.
Browse pub.dev for more packages and libraries contributed
by the community and the Dart team.
Our API reference documentation is published at api.dart.dev,
based on the stable release. (We also publish docs from our
beta and dev channels,
as well as from the primary development branch).
Contributing to Dart
See the contribution guide for details.
Building Dart
If you want to build Dart yourself, here is a guide to
getting the source, preparing your machine to build the SDK, and building.
There are more documents in our repo at docs.
Roadmap
Future plans for Dart are included in the combined Dart and Flutter
roadmap on the Flutter wiki.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
6 sourcesWhat aspersions? Let's start with your "Mozilla disliked Dart", full of personalizing words that obfuscate the objective arguments. Just the "dislike" usage is subjective and vague -- and inaccurate when applied to my comments on HN about Dart.
DartVM never had a chance, I told 'em so and gave concrete reasons why it didn't. Worse, the leaked DASH memo was arrogant and wrong in declaring that JS "cannot be fixed by evolving the language". Anders Hejlsberg gently pushed back against that bogus assertion in 2012:
https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Going+Deep/Anders-Hejlsberg-...
and events have proven him correct.
Read the leaked DASH memo if you haven't yet:
http://pastebin.com/NUMTTrKj
via
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4355
(Note that Mark Miller did not write this memo, he just accidentally posted it to a public Google Group thinking
Read the rest
that group was private to Google employees.)
A lot of water under the bridge since 2010, and some of it had good effects for Dart users for sure, even with Dart now only a compile-to-JS language. But a lot was wasted. Dart could have used bignums (Dart `int` support) in ES6, for example, and this would have helped JS users too. The lack of it is a direct cost of focusing on DartVM at the expense of dart2js; see
https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/1533
You are right that I disliked the stinky politics and enormous question-begging on display in the DASH memo. (That's me disliking a set of bad arguments, not me disliking Dart.) It was a statement of intent, to fund a project because some people of note wanted to do that project, even if it wouldn't work cross-browser, and even if it imposed high opportunity cost to JS both in Chrome (the whole V8 team had to be reconstituted in Munich) and in Ecma TC39 (no one showed up to argue for better cross-compiling support in general).
WebAssembly should grow dynamic language support for Dart and languages like it, but that's years out. In the mean time, only JS as compile-from-Dart target is available. ES6 could have used the help.
It's fine for well-funded entities to waste money on boondoggles (well, not really, but I was not a shareholder, and Google is free to "experiment" for any reason it pleases). But I'm not obligated to praise a bogus justification when it leaks, or honor the two-faced way that JS was dealt with in the memo, and evident from the direct and opportunity costs of DartVM.
Dart also lacks the ability to use the "pub" command if you're behind a proxy or your organization uses IronPort or some other ssl sniffer that breaks your certs.
https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/5454
https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/18929
In Ask HN: What happened to Dart?The Dart SDK, including the VM, dart2js, core libraries, and more
2 points · Open discussion100% chance
The Dart VM is almost 4 years old: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/commit/4c0f559d23b4ffc50848...
In Erik Meijer and Gilad Bracha: Dart, Monads, Continuations (2012)