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I’m currently working on adding better SIMD support to Dart ( https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/64170 ) and I have a question for the author or others here. Does Rust or any other language support customizing the compiler so that…

comment by modulovalue · 2026-09-24 · in Fearless SIMD v1.0

…implemented cross compilation this year which helps with shipping binaries to other machines. https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/28617

comment by Alifatisk · 2025-12-29 · in Ask HN: Is Dart a particularly optimised language for front-end development?

https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/28617 provides some commentary on where things are, and what might happen next.

comment by cpswan · 2025-05-12 · in Dart added support for cross-compilation

…some writings, but none seem to cover the exact details of treeshaking: https://mrale.ph/dartvm/ https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/main/runtime/docs/READ...

comment by eseidel · 2025-01-29 · in An update on Dart macros and data serialization

…Dart actually does Tree Shaking? And what is "Tree Shakeable"? This issue is still open on Github https://github.com/Dart-lang/sdk/issues/33920 . I think this quote accurately sums things up > In fact the only references I can find…

comment by Decabytes · 2025-01-29 · in An update on Dart macros and data serialization

…still an issue to this day and there haven't been any plans to fix that yet from what I can tell. https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/28617 Another slight issue I've found is the error message it spits out is kinda unhelpful most of…

comment by Alifatisk · 2025-01-12 · in Ask HN: Pros and Cons of the Dart Language?

…Smalltalk and there's more support built into Erlang. Also: "Live program changes in the Dart VM" https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/main/docs/Hot-reload.m... "Live reloading for your ESP32" https://github.com/toitlang/jaguar

comment by igouy · 2024-12-13 · in Elixir/Erlang Hot Swapping Code (2016)

I’m not a Dart fan so maybe I’m biased, but wow this (from the article) is a failure on many levels: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/56609

comment by robin_reala · 2024-12-13 · in Three mistakes from Dart/Flutter's weak PRNG

…/github.com/flutter/flutter/graphs/contributors https://github.com/flutter/engine/graphs/contributors https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/graphs/contributors As for flutterfoundation.dev, it appears to be just Matt? Who used to be employed at…

comment by eseidel · 2024-10-28 · in We're forking Flutter

…early work on a bytecode compiler it seems but I’ve not seen any kind of announcement about it here https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/tree/main/pkg/dart2bytecode 7. This REPL It’s really a good time to be a part of the community. It’s a…

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

…to look and see what kind of editor support exists, especially around error handling. Reference: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/wiki/Hot-reload

comment by schemescape · 2023-04-25 · in Ask HN: Languages/environments with Common Lisp-like breakloops/interactivity?

Is it though? Or is Dart-Js not a thing any more? https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/433#issuecomment-108...

comment by sorokod · 2023-01-16 · in Sorting algorithms that don’t hate you

…years . Literally the day we launched, a user filed an issue requesting support for null safety: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/22 For most of Dart's history, that was the #1 upvoted issue on the issue tracker. Back in 2011 before…

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

With regards to records, you only need to wait for it: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/commit/99f60a5e662a7951dd5a...

comment by waitforit · 2022-12-02 · in Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure

…....and upon doing some research to put a link in here, apparently you can as of seven days ago? https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/main/pkg/dart2wasm/dar...

comment by TobyTheDog123 · 2022-12-02 · in Show HN: Programming Google Flutter with Clojure

[0] https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/50360

comment by longrod · 2022-11-02 · in Ask HN: Why does dart –help take 500ms?

…not as critical for audio input as output, but still potential issue, for more details see: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/46943

comment by mkss · 2022-10-11 · in I made a guitar tuner app using Flutter and Rust

…screen without a hack like this: https://github.com/munificent/hauberk/blob/master/web/main.d... https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/11506 (Jun 25, 2013)

comment by markdog12 · 2022-08-03 · in Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework

And Dart has an experimental wasm backend that leverages that work in v8 here: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/main/pkg/dart2wasm/dar...

comment by markdog12 · 2022-04-20 · in WebAssembly 2.0 First Working Draft

…Dart to WASM based Dart. Work going on here but not much to look at now just source and no docs https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/tree/main/pkg/dart2wasm

comment by mhoad · 2022-04-19 · in WebAssembly 2.0 First Working Draft

…like Rust which already have good support for compiling to Rust. [0] Wasm target for Dart - https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/32894#issuecomment-1...

comment by inian · 2022-03-31 · in Supabase Edge Functions

Thanks for the bug report! For anyone else who is following along, the issue is tracked here: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/48460

comment by stereotype441 · 2022-02-23 · in Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK

…you say more about what you were trying to do when you ran into this bug? Ideally file an issue at https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/new . (We really do read and respond to them, and if you find a bug in the grammar, there's a good…

comment by stereotype441 · 2022-02-22 · in Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK

Important to note that dart and flutter (the packages, not builds) have opt-out analytics: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/39233

comment by btdmaster · 2022-02-22 · in Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK

…https://twitter.com/tlively52/status/1493681050693738501 Dart already has a prototype: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/commit/6faa5f3bd00ad8cbc640...

comment by markdog12 · 2022-02-20 · in Fengari – Lua for the Browser

…to run dart natively in web browsers. There is still a chromium fork available that does this: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk As for internet protocols, people are definitely working on this as well. In the cryptocurrency world, we have…

comment by azeirah · 2022-01-27 · in Ask HN: Why do we never see inovation in web browsers?

…highly requested, but unimplemented feature (it's not really necessary for most cases you'd think). https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/32894

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

…is going to become a very big deal once Fuschia drops which could be as early as this week at I/O. https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/graphs/commit-activity

comment by mhoad · 2021-05-17 · in Can I get some reasons to use Java instead of Kotlin?

Thanks - not what I'd expect, but I can repro. Bug filed here: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/45197 It is AOT though. If you time `dart a.dart` vs `./a.exe` (pre strip :-), the latter should be considerably faster.

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

AOT maybe slower in certain cases. This topic discusses it - https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/39367 (it's not relevant only to dart, but other languages/runtimes like it too)

comment by malkia · 2020-10-29 · in Graphical User Interface Using Flutter in Embedded Systems [pdf]

…ttps://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/39190 - Add remote port information to Socket errors (2013!) https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/12693 - setTrustedCertificates doesn't work. Causes HandshakeException all the time…

comment by mleonhard · 2020-07-09 · in Flutter for Linux

…one other person having buildbots. It's not that difficult or hard to run automated tests on a BSD. https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/10260#issuecomment-3...

comment by rvz · 2020-07-08 · in Flutter Linux Alpha with Canonical

…of the language over others? [0]: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/data-and-backend/json [1]: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/22

comment by hardwaresofton · 2020-01-04 · in Flutter vs. Other Mobile Development Frameworks: A UI and Performance Experiment

…reading of this document makes me feel it is really over complicated compared with Dart. [1] https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/37626

comment by latchkey · 2019-07-28 · in Go's updated generic proposal (Contracts)

…be really important to give Flutter better support for rich multimedia like audio rendering. [0]: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/34452#issuecomment-4...

comment by zengid · 2019-05-12 · in Flutter and Chrome OS

It already does, and they're working on making it easier. https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/34343 Not sure if this will use AOT or JIT though.

comment by markdog12 · 2019-04-25 · in Flutter desktop shells

…would really benefit from Union types. There are some open issues related to these things though: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/4938 (Unions) https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/421 (Tuples) Please feel free to contribute…

comment by danbalthasar · 2018-09-20 · in Flutter Release Preview 2

…you can get the same kind of control flow out of Dart albeit with a little less static checking ( https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/33079 ) so from a pragmatic standpoint this really shouldn't be something that's holding you back.…

comment by jrs95 · 2018-09-20 · in Flutter Release Preview 2

…of ever using it. It's apparently a really good language for native targets, but for the web... https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/13285 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027011 I can't really blame the language designers,…

comment by kevingadd · 2018-08-07 · in Announcing Dart 2 Stable and the Dart Web Platform

…For what it's worth, they have recently landed snapshots in Dart that do what you want: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/wiki/Snapshots It's what Flutter uses on iOS since you can't run JITed code; AOT compile it and load it as just…

comment by stefan_ · 2018-05-02 · in Python startup time: milliseconds matter

…for the update, and appreciate your work. I had been keeping an eye on your nnbd prototype here, https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/tree/prototype-nnbd Any updates on that? Do you still think it's a go?

comment by markdog12 · 2017-06-13 · in Dart 1.24: Faster edit-refresh cycle on the web and new function type syntax

…the web page on change, (2) reloading the Dart source in the VM. For the later there is this: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/master/runtime/vm/serv...

comment by isoos · 2017-06-13 · in Dart 1.24: Faster edit-refresh cycle on the web and new function type syntax

…integrated in IntelliJ's debugger and some optimizations for sending messages across isolates. 1: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

comment by jcstk · 2017-06-12 · in Show HN: Aqueduct – Dart on the Server

As an alternate design, check out Dart's analysis server [1]. It's Dart-specific but has successfully been used with multiple editor and IDE plugins. [1] https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/dart-lang/...

comment by skybrian · 2017-06-09 · in Language Servers and IDEs

…much at all. There is ongoing work on an intermediate representation to facilitate the last point: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/tree/master/pkg/kernel

comment by markdog12 · 2017-05-19 · in Hauberk – A web-based roguelike written in Dart

Full changelog https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#12... I really like how detailed the changelogs are, including examples and snippets. It has excellent documentation in general.

comment by korm · 2017-04-21 · in Dart 1.23: Better strong mode support

…skip the warmup phase. Your application starts instantly and it runs at full speed from the get-go. https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/wiki/Snapshots

comment by tomatsu · 2017-04-01 · in Fuchsia: a new operating system

…platforms and include the correct stuff higher up in a .h and an exmaple of it not going so well: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/10260 (fwiw you can find https://github.com/mulander all over this "teaching" effort, so points to…

comment by liveoneggs · 2017-03-31 · in How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build

…IDEs also exposes a set of libraries for scanning, parsing, analyzing, etc. that you can use. [1]: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk [2]: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/tree/master/pkg/analyzer

comment by munificent · 2017-02-15 · in Google’s not-so-secret new OS

…be present and correct. [1]: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2011/10/29/a-proposal-for-... [2]: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/pull/28619 [3]: https://github.com/dart-archive/dev_compiler/blob/master/STR...

comment by munificent · 2017-02-15 · in Google’s not-so-secret new OS