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by nickosmark 1751 days ago
Dart strikes a perfect balance between dynamic and strongly typed languages. Dart is better than JS, typescript and java combined. It has a great VM that makes development easy, an AOT compiler that generates native binaries like Go, and can also compile to Js just like typescript. The language is familiar, easy to learn and the type system is very powerful, sound and non-nullable. Dart SDK includes everything you might need: standard library, code formatter, linter, static analysis, JIT and AOT compiler, package manager, dev tools etc. Right now Dart found its niche in Flutter(which is great imo), but I wish there was a backend framework like Django or rails that would leverage this amazing language.
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41209 1751 days ago
Flutter web is amazing. I have the opportunity to build a side project with it last year, and I just love it. Compared to trying to build web applications with React or Vue, Flutter doesn't have to deal with the baggage of the JavaScript ecosystem.

Here's a server side Dart framework

https://aqueduct.io/

Not sure how mature it is, but if I ever have a need to build another backend server I'll try it. I tend to prefer managed solutions now like Google's Firebase, which integrates so well with Flutter ( obviously because Google has a vested interest in you using their services)

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camel_Snake 1751 days ago
this looked neat, but FYI seems to have been discontinued.

https://stablekernel.com/article/announcing-the-sunsetting-o...

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41209 1751 days ago
Rather unfortunate, but if you really want you can fork it.

I spent a bit of time looking for another project, but it looks like they're just isn't a whole lot of movement on this

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