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Discussion on: What concerns do you have with the Dart language/platform?

 
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Meghan (she/her)

Oh thank you! I’m glad you like it 😊
I typically try to stay as vanilla as possible with my JS since I like to stay close to the browser and recent ES improvements have made JS really simple to do difficult things but I’ll take another look and see what I can do πŸ˜„

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Meghan (she/her)

Edit: I don’t know exactly what changed but dart 2 looks really nice. If I can find a gulp/vscode plugin it looks it could be a lot of fun 🀠

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Jermaine

You're in good fortune my friend because there is one 🀠

Dart VS Code Extension

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Meghan (she/her)

Yes! I found that but when I tried adding Dart to my gulp process with gulp-dart I ran into an error even though I had downloaded the Dart SDK and added it to my PATH. I tried compiling some files manually and I also found that a 'hello world' to the console generated a js file with ~3k lines. I think Dart might be too closely tied to the Flutter framework so for now at least I think I'll be sticking with vanilla JS and Typescript