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Dart is also absolutely fantastic in this regard. https://github.com/dart-lang/language https://github.com/orgs/dart-lang/projects/90/views/1

comment by mdhb · 2025-07-19 · in C# Language Design Meeting for June 30th, 2025

…match statement different??), this very annoying issue that I see remains unsolved after 5 years: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/1188

comment by IshKebab · 2025-07-02 · in Show HN: I made a 2D game engine in Dart

…a lot of additional help from a teammate to handle generics), that became the algorithm we shipped: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/accepted/3.0... It wouldn't have happened if I hadn't coincidentally been working on a toy…

comment by munificent · 2025-06-24 · in Writing toy software is a joy

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Macros in the Dart Programming Language

story by fanf2 · 2025-04-27 · 1 comment

…syntax[1]), except Rust doesn't have that because of its headlong pursuit of 'conciseness'. - [1] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/2181

comment by Defletter · 2025-03-24 · in Rust Additions for GCC 15 Bring Support for If-Let Statements

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Macros in Dart

story by todsacerdoti · 2024-12-02 · 0 comments

…JS and Dart. Considering your involvement with Dart, I find contradictory information [1]. [1] - https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/1461

comment by gagaq · 2024-10-21 · in Skeptical of rewriting JavaScript tools in "faster" languages

…on an immutable snapshot of data so that exhaustiveness can't be violated by side effects. Spec: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/accepted/3.0...

comment by munificent · 2024-10-21 · in The Ultimate Conditional Syntax

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Shared Memory Multithreading for Dart

story by tosh · 2024-10-04 · 1 comment

…to implement this which should start putting it into an different category of language entirely. https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/working/333%...

comment by mdhb · 2024-10-04 · in Go Concurrency vs. RxJS

…code generation. 5. Potentially looking at bringing Shared Memory Multithreading to the language https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/2662d252b7fa93175... 6. Also some early work on a bytecode compiler it seems but I’ve not seen any…

comment by mdhb · 2024-09-28 · in REPL for Dart

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Shared Memory Multithreading for Dart (Proposal)

story by mdhb · 2024-09-19 · 0 comments

…cases like these: https://github.com/pocketbase/dart-sdk/blob/master/lib/src/a... Related issue: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/83

comment by Alifatisk · 2024-08-07 · in Official proposal for Type Unions in C#

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Shared Memory Multithreading for Dart

story by markdog12 · 2024-06-13 · 1 comment

For now but this is in the pipeline too. https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/working/333%...

comment by mdhb · 2024-06-11 · in Swift Static Linux SDK

…means you can attach different virtual behavior to every member of the sealed class family. [1]: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/3021

comment by mraleph · 2024-03-06 · in Embedded Swift on the Raspberry Pi Pico

It also may be getting shared multithreading and related features: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/15ab39175ee00fe88...

comment by markdog12 · 2024-01-31 · in Dart/Flutter now has macros/metaprogramming

Examples right in language repo: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/tree/main/working/macr...

comment by markdog12 · 2024-01-31 · in Dart/Flutter now has macros/metaprogramming

This is the actual spec: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/working/macr... Not really sure what the linked repo is about.

comment by mikenew · 2024-01-30 · in Dart/Flutter now has macros/metaprogramming

…at a macro level and have really strong levels of transparency around how the language is developed https://github.com/dart-lang/language Honestly I think it’s critically under-rated and under-used. Most of its common criticisms I see…

comment by mdhb · 2023-09-17 · in Java 21 makes me like Java again

…record fields there are. Figuring that all out was quite the challenge! The full design is here: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/accepted/3.0...

comment by munificent · 2023-08-17 · in Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart

This doc was updated 3 weeks ago? https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/working/macr... > This could've eliminated so much sickening codegen. Also this is funny because what do you think static metaprogramming is if not codegen?…

comment by mathisfun123 · 2023-08-17 · in Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart

…you just want to define your data and no behavior / helpers - then it is exceedingly verbose. [1]: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/3021

comment by mraleph · 2023-08-17 · in Dart 3.1 and a retrospective on functional style programming in Dart

…Macros to the language. It was really interesting to compare and contrast some of the approaches https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/working/macr...

comment by mhoad · 2023-06-07 · in What’s New in Swift 5.9?

…a ton of work from Johnni Winther to figure out all of the hard complex cases around generics): https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/accepted/fut... The performance (in the prototype!) was dramatically better. You can always…

comment by munificent · 2023-05-30 · in Why is Swift so slow (timeout) in compiling this code? (2022)

…sad more focus is given to things like WebAssembly when the core of Dart/Flutter is lacking. [1] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/accepted/fut... [2] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/main/working/exte...

comment by TobyTheDog123 · 2023-05-10 · in Google’s Flutter expands its support for web apps and WebAssembly

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Dart lang is still missing union types

story by Alifatisk · 2023-03-21 · 0 comments

…human-centered process so often the right answer is just what feels right to the most people. [1]: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/accepted/f...

comment by munificent · 2023-03-21 · in Java 20 / JDK 20: General Availability

…in Dart. But if that doesn't work, the proposal for augmentation libraries would probably help: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/working/au... I'm glad you're enjoying Dart!

comment by munificent · 2023-02-04 · in Flutter desktop isn’t there yet

…that's not already covered by how it does web support anyway, ie drawing inside a canvas? [0] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/2697

comment by satvikpendem · 2022-12-08 · in The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language

Pattern Matching looks good too ! https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/accepted/f...

comment by truth_seeker · 2022-12-08 · in The road to Dart 3: A fully sound, null safe language

…instantaneous hot code reloading being quite amazing -- a bizarre mix of promise and despair. [1] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/resources/...

comment by virtualwhys · 2022-12-03 · in Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure

…if we are talking about these specific features this is a good place to start Here is the intro: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/accepted/f... Here is the spec of what they are currently implementing:…

comment by mhoad · 2022-11-15 · in Why doesn't flutter.dev use flutter as their front end?

…there is a category on the issue tracker for design discussions related to patterns and records: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is...

comment by munificent · 2022-07-19 · in Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

…contraire! We're actively investigating them here on the Dart team. We're finalizing the spec here: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/98335746fb7f2dedf...

comment by timsneath · 2022-07-19 · in Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++

And it's getting patterns too: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/tree/master/working/05...

comment by markdog12 · 2022-05-14 · in Java record pattern matching in JDK 19

…say coming from a Ruby background previously. Here is the section on pattern matching specifically https://github.com/dart-lang/language/tree/master/working/05... and this is the design spec itself https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob…

comment by mhoad · 2022-05-12 · in Flutter 3

…We are also working on support for pattern matching and algebraic datatype-style programming: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/working/05... I say "style" here because object-oriented languages like Dart can already mostly…

comment by munificent · 2022-05-11 · in Flutter 3

…actually use it much, hating on it). [1] https://medium.com/dartlang/dart-2-17-b216bfc80c5d [2] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/1482

comment by brabel · 2022-05-11 · in Flutter 3

…on optional semi-colons [1], and the author's own comment on the subject in an HN thread [2] [1] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/69 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22706645

comment by virtualwhys · 2022-03-05 · in The hardest program I've ever written (2015)

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Dart: Patterns Feature Specification (in progress proposal)

story by burakemir · 2022-03-04 · 0 comments

…Google wanted Dart to replace JavaScript, and still you can't express an object's interface in it. https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/783

comment by mikewhy · 2022-02-12 · in All you should know about Flutter development

I got bitten by this unsoundness which looks like to be present in Dart 2 as well https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/753

comment by kuyp · 2021-11-13 · in Why asynchronous Rust doesn't work

…a bit more functional in practice). Considering what people are asking to add to the language ( https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/working/05... ), I wish people would start with a minimal functional language (Caml/SML…

comment by Zababa · 2021-09-19 · in Write in JavaScript, Render in Flutter

…on, you can just swap out the old language feature (as a package) and swap in the new one. [0] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/1482

comment by satvikpendem · 2021-09-19 · in Write in JavaScript, Render in Flutter

…next batch of features, which with luck includes pattern matching. Here's an in-progress proposal: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/working/05...

comment by munificent · 2021-03-04 · in Flutter 2

Dart is looking at adding pattern matching and "record" types: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/tree/master/working/05...

comment by markdog12 · 2020-12-08 · in Why nullable types?

…are curious that Dart is looking at adding pattern matching, since it's mentioned in the article. https://github.com/dart-lang/language/tree/master/working/05... @munificent, not sure if that's the link you'd want.

comment by markdog12 · 2020-12-07 · in Why Nullable Types?

…and hopefully with the release of null safety, the team will have the time to implement ADTs! [0] https://github.com/dart-lang/language/issues/349

comment by eat_veggies · 2020-07-26 · in Understanding null safety in Dart

newtype dart proposal: https://github.com/dart-lang/language/blob/master/working/st...

comment by markdog12 · 2020-07-25 · in Understanding null safety in Dart