How about this? They might have changed their minds.. https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/26488
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dart-lang / sdk
sdk
The Dart SDK, including the VM, JS and Wasm compilers, analysis, core libraries, and more.
54Distinct people
67Mentions
1Explicit recommenders
11.3KGitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
The Dart SDK, including the VM, JS and Wasm compilers, analysis, core libraries, and more.
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Where it is used
No documented product use was verified in the last source check.
What people are saying
> 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
5 sourcesYou are correct. The feature request for adding type-based overloaded function was denied: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/49#issuecomment-1083...
> If you need a different variant of a method, create a method with a different name. ... type-based overloading is a bad idea, creating brittleness and ambiguity.
In Long Names are LongI think the biggest takeaway from this is the amount of poorly thought out software that exists there which assumes that Linux is the only unix. From the link on page about porting Dart -- https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/10260 -- people have gotten it working, but upstream is completely silent on porting patches and working with people on getting the required alterations in-tree. Even starting with the basics, like the shell interpreter, too much software assumes that bash is part of the base user space, instead of a package that will be somewhere other than /bin. It just feels that after Linux hit a certain amount of market share, too many developers decided that portable well-written code wasn't worth it, and ignored the millions of systems that run other operating system, to the detriment of everyone.
In Year of the OpenBSD desktopInterested in BSD ports or are we all wasting time here?
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