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Dart Vs JavaScript- A Comparison That You Must Know

Javascript gained popularity when it came in the world of cross platform mobile app development and server-side development. Node.js framework can be used for both frontend and backend development, so it became more popular among web developers. With the use of React native by facebook, mobile app developers also started to shift towards Javascript. So javascript is holding the position of most popular programming language. Google created the Flutter framework for cross-platform mobile application development. Flutter framework uses Dart programming language. Most of you might have a question of what’s the difference between dart and javascript. How do they differ? To know the answer to all this, let us see the comparison of Dart vs javascript.

What Is Dart?

Dart is a programming language used by Flutter framework. It was initially used at Google to build server, web and mobile applications. Dart compiles the source code like javascript. It gained more attention in 2017 when google announced Flutter beta for cross platform mobile app development. These days developers are eager to adopt Flutter, but they nee dto learn Dart to get started.

Advantages Of Dart-

  • Dart is open-source
  • It is supported by Google and runs seamlessly on Google Cloud platform
  • Faster than Javascript
  • It is type-safe and compiled with both AOT and JIT compilers
  • Dart is scalable across projects
  • Extensively used for flutter mobile UI framework

What Is Javascript?

Javascript is a language for rendering web pages along with HTML and CSS technologies. Later on, javascript extended its arm to server-side and mobile app development. Javascript is a mature, stable programming language and supports both OOPS and functional programming style. Because of the dynamic nature, it doesn’t need compilation of code at client side. Javascript jas its own package managers such as NPM. Javascript became the most preferred and popular programming language since facebook launched the React and React native frameworks for web and mobile app development.

Advantages Of JavaScript-

  • Javascript is fast, flexible and light-weight
  • It can be used for web apps and mobile apps.
  • Javascript can be used for both frontend and backend
  • Has huge community and great frameworks available online

Dart Vs JavaScript- A Comparison

1. Popularity-
Dart is a new language. It has got a huge attention among mobile developers as an alternative to React native. Popular companies like Google, Alibaba are using Flutter.

Right now, javascript is everywhere and many companies are using javascript frameworks for developing mobile and web applications. It can be used for server-side applications and backends so most of the developers are learning javascript as a language.

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