Christoph Menzel

Dart - a language believed dead, experiences a new bloom

How did a language once declared dead become the engine for millions of apps? Uncover the modern features that make Dart so powerful.

Dart - a language believed dead, experiences a new bloom
#1about 3 minutes

Dart's history and its modern revival with Flutter

Dart originated as a JavaScript replacement but gained significant popularity as the language for the Flutter cross-platform framework.

#2about 3 minutes

Exploring Dart's core principles and performance goals

Dart is designed to be a client-optimized, productive language for fast apps on any platform, featuring hot reload and faster startup times than Java or Node.js.

#3about 1 minute

How Dart compiles code for development and production

Dart uses Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation for fast development cycles with hot reload and Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compilation for optimized production builds.

#4about 6 minutes

A tour of Dart's type system and syntax

Dart features a strongly typed system with type inference, sound null safety, private members via underscore, and convenient extension methods.

#5about 4 minutes

Using cascades, enhanced enums, and mixins

Learn advanced Dart features like cascades for cleaner object configuration, enums with members, and mixins for code reuse through composition.

#6about 5 minutes

Asynchronous programming with futures and isolates

Dart handles concurrency using `async`/`await` with Futures and achieves true parallelism with isolates, which run in separate memory heaps to avoid locks.

#7about 2 minutes

Finding and using packages with pub.dev

Discover how to find, evaluate, and use third-party packages from the pub.dev repository, Dart's official package manager.

#8about 3 minutes

Leveraging Dart's developer tools and hot reload

A demonstration of Dart's powerful developer tooling, including the debugger, profiler, and the highly productive hot reload feature.

#9about 2 minutes

Q&A on mixins, use cases, and the Dart VM

Answering audience questions about mixin method conflicts, real-world Dart applications beyond Flutter, and the performance benefits of the Dart VM over the JVM.

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