What is your take on swift? Do you think dart can borrow some ideas from swift? Most of it is just syntax sugar, but it is very pleasant to look and work with.
The main thing I miss from Swift is its extensibility letting you extend primitive types like Arrays or Strings, this lets you easily add LINQ-like capabilities even tho Swift doesn't ship with many, see: https://github.com/mythz/swift-linq-examples
Dart comes with a rich functional and Stream API's on collections so most of the time you wont need to extend it (same LINQ examples in Dart: https://github.com/dartist/101LinqSamples), but unfortunately you can't extend built-in (or external) types which means you need to use top-level methods which can break-up the flow of your beautiful expression flows. Extensions is also important for minimizing unnecessary abstraction and maximizing re-usability since you can extend without being forced to create foreign wrapper API's.
IMO Extensions are one of the most important traits for keeping a minimal friction-free language, something I see Go and Swift benefiting a lot from.
But otherwise I find Dart's optional-typing a tonne more productive than Swift's strict type inference / generic enforcement, Dart also has a rich consistent library, integrated package manager, static analyzer and overall better development experience.
Although there's little overlap as Swift is mainly for creating iOS/OSX desktop apps and Dart is focused on rich Web Apps. Basically the only times when you'd be able to choose one or the other is in command-line scripts, I'd still prefer to use Dart for.
Dart comes with a rich functional and Stream API's on collections so most of the time you wont need to extend it (same LINQ examples in Dart: https://github.com/dartist/101LinqSamples), but unfortunately you can't extend built-in (or external) types which means you need to use top-level methods which can break-up the flow of your beautiful expression flows. Extensions is also important for minimizing unnecessary abstraction and maximizing re-usability since you can extend without being forced to create foreign wrapper API's.
IMO Extensions are one of the most important traits for keeping a minimal friction-free language, something I see Go and Swift benefiting a lot from.
Dart does have powerful mixins (https://www.dartlang.org/articles/mixins/) but you can only mixin into classes you define (i.e. not built-in or external types).
But otherwise I find Dart's optional-typing a tonne more productive than Swift's strict type inference / generic enforcement, Dart also has a rich consistent library, integrated package manager, static analyzer and overall better development experience.
Although there's little overlap as Swift is mainly for creating iOS/OSX desktop apps and Dart is focused on rich Web Apps. Basically the only times when you'd be able to choose one or the other is in command-line scripts, I'd still prefer to use Dart for.